PDFlib Text Extraction Toolkit (TET) Manual

Table 8.3 TETML elements
TETML element
Attachment
Attachments
Box
Cell
ColorSpace
ColorSpaces
Content
Creation
DocInfo
Document
Encryption
Exception
Font
Fonts
Glyph
Image
Images
Line
Metadata
Options
Page
Pages
Para
PlacedImage
Resources
Row
Table
TET
Text
Word
description
For PDF attachments describes the contents in a nested Document element. For non-PDF attachments
only the name will be listed, but no contents.
Container of Attachment elements
Describes the coordinates of a Word. A word may contain multiple Box elements, e.g. a hyphenated
word which spans multiple lines of text, or a word which starts with a large character.
Describes the contents of a single table cell.
Describes a PDF colorspace.
Container of ColorSpace elements
Describes the page contents as a hierarchical structure.
Describes the date and operating system platform for the TET execution, plus the version number
of TET.
Predefined and custom document info entries
Describes general document information including PDF file name and size, PDF version number.
Describes various security settings.
Contains the error message and number associated with an exception which was thrown by TET.
The Exception element may replace other elements if not enough information can be extracted
from the input because of malformed PDF data structures.
Describes a font resource.
Container of Font elements
Describes font and geometry details for a single glyph. The element content holds the Unicode
characters produced by this glyph. This can be more than one character, e.g. for ligatures. The
Glyph elements for a word are grouped within one or more Box elements.
Describes an image resource, i.e. the actual pixel array comprising the image.
Container of Image elements
Contains the text for a single line.
Contains XMP metadata and can be associated to the document, a font, or an image.
Contains the document or page options used for generating the TETML
Contains the contents of a single page
Container of Page elements
Contains the text comprising a single paragraph.
Describes an instance of an image placed on the page.
Contains colorspace, font, and image resources
Contains one or more table cells
Contains one or more table rows.
The root element
The actual text for a word or other element.
A single word
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