text_output/invisible_text
Output invisible text on top of an image.
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<?php
/*
* Invisible text:
* Output invisible text on top of an image
*
* Place an image and create invisible text on top of it with the
* "textrendering" parameter set to 3. The most common scenario for this is
* "scanned page with invisible OCR text (which has been retrieved from the
* scanned page in an earlier step with OCR).
* Required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 9
* Required data: image file
*/
/* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */
$searchpath = dirname(__FILE__,3)."/input";
$outfile = "";
$title = "Invisible Text";
$imagefile = "multi_page.tif";
try {
$p = new pdflib();
$p->set_option("searchpath={" . $searchpath . "}");
/* This means we must check return values of load_font() etc. */
$p->set_option("errorpolicy=return");
if ($p->begin_document($outfile, "") == 0)
throw new Exception("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
$p->set_info("Creator", "PDFlib Cookbook");
$p->set_info("Title", $title);
/* Load the font. */
$font = $p->load_font("NotoSerif-Regular", "unicode", "");
if ($font == 0)
throw new Exception("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
/* Load the image */
$image = $p->load_image("auto", $imagefile, "page=1");
if ($image == 0)
throw new Exception("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
/* Start page */
$p->begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height");
/* Place the image */
$p->fit_image($image, 0, 0, "boxsize={595 842} fitmethod=meet");
$p->close_image($image);
/* Save the current graphics state */
$p->save();
/* Set the text rendering mode to "invisible text" */
$p->set_text_option("textrendering=3");
/* Output the text invisibly on top of the image with the rendering
* mode set to "invisible text" above. (The text can be output
* on top of the image or below the image.) The following text
* resembles text retrieved from the scanned page via OCR.
*/
$p->setfont($font, 21);
$p->fit_textline("PDFlib GmbH München, Germany", 130, 750, "");
$p->fit_textline("www.pdflib.com", 215, 710, "");
$p->setfont($font, 28);
$p->fit_textline("Tutorial for", 120, 480, "");
$p->fit_textline("PDFlib, PDI, and PPS", 120, 445, "");
$p->setfont($font, 21);
$p->fit_textline("General Edition for", 195, 125, "");
$p->fit_textline("Cobol, C, C++, Java, Perl", 165, 95, "");
$p->fit_textline("PHP, Phyton, RPG, Ruby, and Tcl", 140, 70, "");
/* Restore the current graphics state */
$p->restore();
$p->end_page_ext("");
$p->end_document("");
$buf = $p->get_buffer();
$len = strlen($buf);
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Length: $len");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=invisible_text.pdf");
print $buf;
} catch (PDFlibException $e) {
echo("PDFlib exception occurred:\n".
"[" . $e->get_errnum() . "] " . $e->get_apiname() .
": " . $e->get_errmsg() . "\n");
} catch (Throwable $e) {
echo("PHP exception occurred: " . $e->getMessage() . "\n");
}
$p = 0;
?>