How does one obtain the location of text in a PDF with PDFMiner? [duplicate]

You are looking for the bbox property on every layout object. There is a little bit of information on how to parse the layout hierarchy in the PDFMiner documentation, but it doesn’t cover everything. Here’s an example: from pdfminer.pdfdocument import PDFDocument from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage from pdfminer.pdfparser import PDFParser from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter from … Read more

How do I find position of a Win32 control/window relative to its parent window?

The solution is using the combined power of GetWindowRect() and MapWindowPoints(). GetWindowRect() retrieves the coordinates of a window relative to the entire screen area you see on your monitor. We need to convert these absolute coordinates into relative coordinates of our main window area. The MapWindowPoints() transforms the coordinates given relative to one window into … Read more