Table Extraction

Pietro Paolini pietro.paolini at cognitivecredit.com
Wed Mar 4 17:17:37 GMT 2020


Hi all again,

Took me a while to figure out about the prefix.sh file .... it works
as expected now.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 4:11 PM Pietro Paolini
<pietro.paolini at cognitivecredit.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Congratulations for the project first of all, it is a very useful and
> complete piece of software, free to everybody. I've been using it for
> a while and lately I've been using the table extraction tool more
> frequently - I am curious to see how it is implemented however I
> cannot make sense of the source code. I reckon this is me not being
> used to a large c++ codebase.
>
> I thought the code for the feature was implemented in pageview.cpp
> however  a few experiments seem to contradict this view - if I insert
> a return right after the
>
>   case Okular::Settings::EnumMouseMode::TableSelect: (pageview.cpp)
> the feature works nonetheless.
>
> Is it maybe the way I build and run it which is flawed ? I am
> re-making the project in the build folder I've created each time and
> then run it with ./shell/okular - cleaning the whole folder each time
> does not help.
>
> Same it I insert a return at the first line of guessTableDivider()
>
> Could you please point me to the right direction ?
> Thanks,
> P.


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