PDF Miner

Author: Jerry Chae

Description

This plugin gives your bot a capability to search a text string in a PDF document and returns coordinates (x – y location information) of the target text string on the page.

Need help?

Technical contact to tech@argos-labs.com

May you search all operations,

Required Input

A PDF file (please not that “image pdf” does not work.)
A text string to look for

Output/Return Value

A CSV will be returned.

CSV headers are like below (case-sensitive)

pageid

width

height

x0

y0

x1

y1

text

Headers

- pageid page # that starts with 1 (integer)

- width width of the page in pixel

- height height of the page in pixel

- x0 top left corner location in number of pixels from the left edge of the page

- y0 top left corner location in number of pixels from the top edge of the page

- x1 bottom right corner location in number of pixels from the left edge

- y1 bottom right corner location in number of pixels from the left edge

- text shows the targe text string in full

To extract data, use the standard STU variable format i.e. {{groupname.text(index)}}

How to set parameters

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