How to get vector image coordinates from PDF files.

[Karthik G Kumar]

Hi,

I want to  get the vector image coordinates from PDF files.  I have try to lot ways but did not take the values.Please give the solutions for this query.

[Test Screen Name]

Images are not vectors. But you can get their coordinates if you write a C++ plugin for Acrobat Pro. 

[Karthik G Kumar]

How to get this container name and coordinates from PDF file using C++ plugin.

[Thom Parker]

You could also use a tool like PDFCanOpener to discover what type of things are on the page and also get the coordinates of those things.

https://www.windjack.com/product/pdfcanopener/

[Thom Parker]

What exactly are you trying to do?

[Karthik G Kumar]

I want to get this  vector image coordinates values.

[Test Screen Name]

These are either images or they are vectors. They CANNOT be both. You also mark text. This is not image, nor vector. Text is a different kind of thing. The PDFEdit calls in a C++ plug-in can be used to get all the data including

- graphics transformation matrixes (which define position and scale)

- starting position for text run, and characters included

- bezier curves for vectors

You would iterate through all the graphical objects on a page. You see ALL the objects on the page, so you have to write code to pick out the relevant objects, and get their properties. This is not a task for a beginner with C++, or a beginner with the API, or the a beginner with computer graphics. I recommend reading the "text" and "graphics" chapters from the PDF Reference; these few hundred pages of documentation are really necessary preparation for working with the PDFEdit API.