Units of the dimension/some are missing?

[arthur798]

So a typical text line has:

{
  x: 4.453,
  y: 23.642,
  w: 1.06,
  sw: 0.32553125,
  clr: 0,
  A: 'left',
  R: [ { T: '%5B%20%5D%20', S: -1, TS: [Array] } ]
}

In what units are those values as I need it to be in pixels, also which values are the left (how far from left hand side), width and height values. Also I would need a top values so how far it's from the top of the page as I will need to insert a signature, how can I do that?

[utsavsingh899]

The units used is page units. Page units are relative units which depend on the size, resolution and dpi of the system & pdf. Please refer to this link for more info (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42494394/pdf2json-page-unit-what-is-it).

[austenstrine]

Page units are not the same kind of "relative" as the x/y values.

If I have a block of text at node1.x and another block of text at node2.x, and there is some space between node1 and node2, node1.x+node1.w is reliably greater than node2.x.

The documentation says that x and y are "relative units", and that w / h / l are "page units". For reasons unknown, 1 relative unit !== 1 page unit, or else node1.x+node1.w would be <= node2.x

If anyone can provide some information on reliably converting a "page unit" into a "relative unit", or vice versa, that would be extremely helpful.

The units used is page units. Page units are relative units which depend on the size, resolution and dpi of the system & pdf. Please refer to this link for more info (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42494394/pdf2json-page-unit-what-is-it).

[austenstrine]

Page units are not the same kind of "relative" as the x/y values.

If I have a block of text at node1.x and another block of text at node2.x, and there is some space between node1 and node2, node1.x+node1.w is reliably greater than node2.x.

The documentation says that x and y are "relative units", and that w / h / l are "page units". For reasons unknown, 1 relative unit !== 1 page unit, or else node1.x+node1.w would be <= node2.x

If anyone can provide some information on reliably converting a "page unit" into a "relative unit", or vice versa, that would be extremely helpful.

The units used is page units. Page units are relative units which depend on the size, resolution and dpi of the system & pdf. Please refer to this link for more info (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42494394/pdf2json-page-unit-what-is-it).

See https://github.com/modesty/pdf2json/issues/136#issuecomment-1129033826 for understanding/resolving this problem