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+ Text-only PDF.js example
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+ Text-only PDF.js example
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+/* Copyright 2014 Mozilla Foundation
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+var PDF_PATH = '../../web/compressed.tracemonkey-pldi-09.pdf';
+var PAGE_NUMBER = 1;
+var PAGE_SCALE = 1.5;
+var SVG_NS = 'http://www.w3.org/2000/svg';
+
+function buildSVG(viewport, textContent) {
+ // Building SVG with size of the viewport (for simplicity)
+ var svg = document.createElementNS(SVG_NS, 'svg:svg');
+ svg.setAttribute('width', viewport.width + 'px');
+ svg.setAttribute('height', viewport.height + 'px');
+ // items are transformed to have 1px font size
+ svg.setAttribute('font-size', 1);
+
+ // processing all items
+ textContent.items.forEach(function (textItem) {
+ // we have to take in account viewport transform, which incudes scale,
+ // rotation and Y-axis flip, and not forgetting to flip text.
+ var tx = PDFJS.Util.transform(
+ PDFJS.Util.transform(viewport.transform, textItem.transform),
+ [1, 0, 0, -1, 0, 0]);
+ var style = textContent.styles[textItem.fontName];
+ // adding text element
+ var text = document.createElementNS(SVG_NS, 'svg:text');
+ text.setAttribute('transform', 'matrix(' + tx.join(' ') + ')');
+ text.setAttribute('font-family', style.fontFamily);
+ text.textContent = textItem.str;
+ svg.appendChild(text);
+ });
+ return svg;
+}
+
+function pageLoaded() {
+ // Loading document and page text content
+ PDFJS.getDocument({url: PDF_PATH}).then(function (pdfDocument) {
+ pdfDocument.getPage(PAGE_NUMBER).then(function (page) {
+ var viewport = page.getViewport(PAGE_SCALE);
+ page.getTextContent().then(function (textContent) {
+ // building SVG and adding that to the DOM
+ var svg = buildSVG(viewport, textContent);
+ document.getElementById('pageContainer').appendChild(svg);
+ });
+ });
+ });
+}
+
+document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () {
+ if (typeof PDFJS === 'undefined') {
+ alert('Built version of PDF.js was not found.\n' +
+ 'Please run `node make generic`.');
+ return;
+ }
+ pageLoaded();
+});