How to quantify indents

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February 5, 2020
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Looking to convert lots of documents to text. Need meta data about the document and the text. One data point that is needed is the indent. Need to know if a line is indented from the left margin and some sort of quantification of that indent such as spaces, tabs or something else. If such a tool does not exist I am willing to code it but this new to me. What tools might help solve this problem?

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Correct answer try67

This can be done using Acrobat JavaScript, but it's quite a complex task.

try67

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There's no way to measure the distance of a word from the margin of a page in spaces or tabs, because those don't exist in a PDF files as such. You can measure the physical distance in points and then convert it to inches, centimeters, etc.