[Okular-devel] [Bug 161324] recognise columns in the text of a page

[Robert Knight]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161324


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--- Comment #13 from Robert Knight <robertknight gmail com>  2009-01-10 16:11:51 ---
> Pattern recognizion of what is a column and what is not based on
> coordinates of each character is something your brain can do very easily
> but programming an algorithm that does that is not trivial by far,
> so i guess the answer is no 

It is certainly possible but not trivial - Ocropus provides a free software C++
implementation of algorithms to do this if you're interested.  The basic
approach is to try to the largest columns of whitespace in the page and divide
the text into columns based on that.


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