How to extract text bounding box coordinates?

[hoangthanh283]

Thanks for your work!
I tried to look at the document to find APIs to extract text bounding boxes but I could not. So I wonder do we support extracting text bounding boxes or not.

I tried with:

searcher = textpage.search("something", match_case=False, match_whole_word=False)
first_occurrence = searcher.get_next()

But it returns a tuple (int, int) (Start character index and count of the next occurrence) instead of a list of bounding boxes of the form (left, bottom, right, top) that is mentioned in README.

[mara004]

So I wonder do we support extracting text bounding boxes or not.

Yes we do.

You'll want the PdfTextPage API, notably count_rects() and get_rect().
Sorry about the outdated readme comment, that API changed with v4. I'll fix that.

I guess you only looked at the readme and missed the docs on RTD, right?