PDFlib Text Extraction Toolkit (TET) Manual

Table 9.3 Universal pseudo objects
object name
pcosinterface
explanation
(Number) Interface number of the underlying pCOS implementation. This specification describes interface
number 3. The following table details which product versions implement various pCOS interface
numbers:
1 TET 2.0, 2.1
2 pCOS 1.0
3 PDFlib+PDI 7, PPS 7, TET 2.2, pCOS 2.0, PLOP 3.0, TET 2.3
4 PLOP 4.0, TET 3.0
(Number/string) pCOS mode as number or string:
0 minimum
1 restricted
2 full
pdfversion (Number) PDF version number multiplied by 10, e.g. 16 for PDF 1.6
pcosmode
pcosmodename
pdfversionstring
shrug
version
(String) Full PDF version string in the form expected by various API functions for setting the PDF output
compatibility, e.g. 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.7ext3
(Boolean) True if and only if security settings were ignored when opening the PDF document; the client
must take care of honoring the document author’s intentions. For TET the value will be true, and content
extraction will be allowed, if all of the following conditions are true:
> Shrug mode has been enabled with the shrug option.
> The document has a master password but this has not been supplied.
> The user password (if required for the document) has been supplied.
> Content extraction is not allowed in the document’s permission settings.
(String) Full library version string in the format .., possibly suffixed with additional
qualifiers such as beta, rc, etc.
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