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Synopsis
use PDF::Class;
use PDF::Tags::Reader;
# read tags
my PDF::Class $pdf .= open: "t/pdf/tagged.pdf");
my PDF::Tags::Reader $tags .= read: :$pdf;
my PDF::Tags::Elem $doc = $tags[0];
say "document root {$doc.name}";
say " - child {.name}" for $doc.kids;
say $doc.xml; # dump tags and text content as XML
Description
This module implements reading of tagged PDF content from PDF files.
Methods
This class inherits from PDF::Tags and has its methods available.
method read
method read(PDF::Class :$pdf!, Bool :$create, Bool :$marks) returns PDF::Tags
Read tagged PDF structure from an existing file that has been previously tagged.
The :create
option creates a new struct-tree root, if one does not already exist.
The :marks
option causes PDF::Tag::Reader to descend into content and build a more detailed structure that includes the actual marks in the content stream as PDF::Tags::Mark objects. Otherwise just the content text is inserted as a child of type Str
.
method canvas-tags
method canvas-tags(PDF::Content::Canvas) returns Hash
Renders a canvas object (Page or XObject form) and caches marked content as a hash of PDF::Content::Tag objects, indexed by MCID
(Marked Content ID).
Scripts in this Distribution
pdf-tag-dump.raku
pdf-tag-dump.raku --select=<xpath-expr> --omit=tag --password=Xxxx --max-depth=n --marks --/atts --/style --debug t/pdf/tagged.pdf
Options:
--password=****
- password for the input PDF, if encrypted with a user password--max-depth=n
- depth to ascend/descend struct tree--/atts
disable tags attributes--debug
- write extra debugging information to XML--marks
- descend into marked content--strict
- warn about unknown tags, etc--/style
- omit stylesheet--select=xpath-expr
- twigs to include (relative to root)
This script reads tagged PDF content from PDF files as XML.