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Try with cpdf (disclaimer, wrote it): cpdf -output-json -output-json-parse-content-streams in.pdf -o out.json Then you can play around with the JSON, and tu

by whenc 1y ago

Try with cpdf (disclaimer, wrote it): cpdf -output-json -output-json-parse-content-streams in.pdf -o out.json Then you can play around with the JSON, and turn it back to PDF with cpdf -j out.json -o out.pdf No live back-and-forth though.

svat 1y ago
The live back-and-forth is the main point of what I'm asking for — I tried your cpdf (thanks for the mention; will add it to my list) and it too doesn't help; all it does is, somewhere 9000-odd lines into the JSON file, turn the part of the content stream corresponding to what I mentioned in the earlier comment into: [ [ { "F": 0.0 }, "g" ], [ { "F": 0.0 }, "G" ], [ { "F": 0.0 }, "g" ], [ { "F": 0.0 }, "G" ], [ "BT" ], [ "/F19", { "F": 10.9091 }, "Tf" ], [ { "F": 88.93600000000001 }, { "F": 709.0410000000001 }, "Td" ], [ [ "Subsequen", { "F": 28.0 }, "t", { "F": -374.0 }, "to", { "F": -373.0 }, "the", { "F": -373.0 }, "p", { "F": -28.0 }, "erio", { "F": -28.0 }, "d", { "F": -373.0 }, "analyzed", { "F": -373.0 }, "in", { "F": -374.0 }, "our", { "F": -373.0 }, "study", { "F": 83.0 }, ",", { "F": -383.0 }, "Bridge's", { "F": -373.0 }, "paren", { "F": 27.0 }, "t", { "F": -373.0 }, "compan", { "F": 28.0 }, "y", { "F": -373.0 }, "Ne", { "F": -1.0 }, "wGlob", { "F": -27.0 }, "e", { "F": -374.0 }, "reduced" ], "TJ" ], [ { "F": -16.936 }, { "F": -21.922 }, "Td" ], This is just a more verbose restatement of what's in the PDF file; the real questions I'm asking are: - How can a user get to this part, from viewing the PDF file? (Note that the PDF page objects are not necessarily a flat list; they are often nested at different levels of “kids”.) - How can a user understand these instructions, and “see” how they correspond to what is visually displayed on the PDF file?
IIAOPSW 1y ago
This might actually be something very valuable to me. I have a bunch of documents right now that are annual statutory and financial disclosures of a large institute, and they are just barely differently organized from each year to the next to make it too tedious to cross compare them manually. I've been looking around for a tool that could break out the content and let me reorder it so that the same section is on the same page for every report. This might be it.

by whenc 1y ago

svat 1y ago

The live back-and-forth is the main point of what I'm asking for — I tried your cpdf (thanks for the mention; will add it to my list) and it too doesn't help; all it does is, somewhere 9000-odd lines into the JSON file, turn the part of the content stream corresponding to what I mentioned in the earlier comment into: [ [ { "F": 0.0 }, "g" ], [ { "F": 0.0 }, "G" ], [ { "F": 0.0 }, "g" ], [ { "F": 0.0 }, "G" ], [ "BT" ], [ "/F19", { "F": 10.9091 }, "Tf" ], [ { "F": 88.93600000000001 }, { "F": 709.0410000000001 }, "Td" ], [ [ "Subsequen", { "F": 28.0 }, "t", { "F": -374.0 }, "to", { "F": -373.0 }, "the", { "F": -373.0 }, "p", { "F": -28.0 }, "erio", { "F": -28.0 }, "d", { "F": -373.0 }, "analyzed", { "F": -373.0 }, "in", { "F": -374.0 }, "our", { "F": -373.0 }, "study", { "F": 83.0 }, ",", { "F": -383.0 }, "Bridge's", { "F": -373.0 }, "paren", { "F": 27.0 }, "t", { "F": -373.0 }, "compan", { "F": 28.0 }, "y", { "F": -373.0 }, "Ne", { "F": -1.0 }, "wGlob", { "F": -27.0 }, "e", { "F": -374.0 }, "reduced" ], "TJ" ], [ { "F": -16.936 }, { "F": -21.922 }, "Td" ], This is just a more verbose restatement of what's in the PDF file; the real questions I'm asking are: - How can a user get to this part, from viewing the PDF file? (Note that the PDF page objects are not necessarily a flat list; they are often nested at different levels of “kids”.) - How can a user understand these instructions, and “see” how they correspond to what is visually displayed on the PDF file?

IIAOPSW 1y ago

This might actually be something very valuable to me. I have a bunch of documents right now that are annual statutory and financial disclosures of a large institute, and they are just barely differently organized from each year to the next to make it too tedious to cross compare them manually. I've been looking around for a tool that could break out the content and let me reorder it so that the same section is on the same page for every report. This might be it.