Re:IDPF, EPUB Standardizing Body, Has Combined with W3C
by taejo on Monday February 06, 2017 @07:37AM
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> they're just OCRing the rendered page
Not quite. Usually the PDF specifies each character (although the reader still has to do a slightly wacky conversion from glyph name to unicode character) but the position is specified as an (x,y) position, so the reader has to reconstruct the order that they come in, add spaces and newlines, etc.
Not quite. Usually the PDF specifies each character (although the reader still has to do a slightly wacky conversion from glyph name to unicode character) but the position is specified as an (x,y) position, so the reader has to reconstruct the order that they come in, add spaces and newlines, etc.