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I have a large PDF file that is a floor map for a building. It has layers for all the office furniture including text boxes of seat location.
My goal is to read this file with PHP, search the document for text layers, get their contents and coordinates in the file. This way I can map out seat locations -> x/y coordinates.
Is there any way to do this via PHP? (Or even Ruby or Python if that's what's necessary)
Not exactly php, but you could exec a program from php to convert the pdf to a temporary html file and then parse the resulting file with php. I've done something similar for a project of mine and this is the program I used:
The resulting HTML wraps text elements in < div > tags with absolute position coordinates. It seems like this is exactly what you are trying to do.