[gdal-dev] how to get gis layer information from GeoPDF (e.g. retrieve building polygon coordinates)

Brent Fraser bfraser at geoanalytic.com
Fri Dec 2 17:41:13 EST 2011


I wonder if it would be possible to leverage pstoedit 
(http://www.pstoedit.net/)?  I've used it with Ghostview to extract PDF 
vectors to DXF (with no georeferencing of course) with varying success.

Best Regards,
Brent Fraser


On 12/2/2011 3:37 PM, Even Rouault wrote:
> Le vendredi 02 décembre 2011 23:19:10, Jared Rubin a écrit :
>> Even,
>> Would it be possible to do an ogr driver to get the vector features (I
>> guess similar to shape files? Or maybe update the pdf driver to dump  each
>> indivual vector feature into gdal metadata?
> A OGR driver would perhaps be possible. I haven't studied the question
> however. And I presume it would represent a significant effort as it would
> involve parsing and interpretating the PDF vector stream. Currently, all the
> hard work of rasterizing the PDF content is delegated to the poppler library.
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