SetOrigin

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   Does the SetOrigin can be used before extracting text, or is it just useful before writing text?

I read text, and want to get coordinates relative to TopLeft. 

Seems that SetOrigin does not have effect when retrieving coordinates

Can someone confirm (or not)

Thanks in advance
Eric

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darkv Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 17 Jan 11 Status: Offline Points: 38	Post Options Post Reply Quote darkv Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: SetOrigin Posted: 18 May 11 at 5:34PM
	Does the SetOrigin can be used before extracting text, or is it just useful before writing text? I read text, and want to get coordinates relative to TopLeft. Seems that SetOrigin does not have effect when retrieving coordinates Can someone confirm (or not) Thanks in advance Eric

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3530	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 May 11 at 10:20PM
	Hi Eric! SetOrigin has no affect regarding textextraction and there's no need to 'cause you can use the options 3 and 4 to get the position data. So you know where's your extracted data from. The first row at the top is always the one with the highest value (in pixel / psunits). So row number 125 (for example) is pretty below and 852 is the highest while using format DIN A4. Cheers, Ingo

darkv Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 17 Jan 11 Status: Offline Points: 38	Post Options Post Reply Quote darkv Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 May 11 at 1:32AM
	Ingo, Thanks for your reply, which confirms my thought. I currently used option3 and it seems that origin is bottom right, regarding position i retrieved and text place in the file. Does it mean i have to call getorigin before to be sure how the document origin was set? or is text extraction still referring to bottom right? Thanks again Cheers Eric

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3530	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 May 11 at 7:28AM
	Hi Eric! Testextraction from pdf means last in - first out. So you'll get the last line at first. Page by page. If the whole page is written in pdf and at the end the author inserts one word in the first line this word was the last which was inserted but it's the first which will be extracted 'cause it's the last content on the page. With the coordinates you have to rearrange the content... Cheers, Ingo