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Extract text inside a bounding rectangle

Source: R/api_completion.R
pdf_text_bounded.Rd

Wraps FPDFText_GetBoundedText. Returns the Unicode characters on page whose glyph centers fall inside the rectangle defined by (left, bottom, right, top) in PDF user-space points.

Usage

pdf_text_bounded(page, bounds)

Arguments

page

A pdfium_page from pdf_page_load().

bounds

Numeric length-4 vector c(left, bottom, right, top).

Value

Character scalar. Empty string "" when no characters fall inside the rectangle.

Details

Pairs naturally with pdf_text_rects() (which produces the rectangles in the first place) and with downstream geometry-driven extraction workflows.

See also

pdf_text_rects(), pdf_doc_text().