>> I just assume that the actual content is hidden inside the page's
>> content stream(s).
>
> Raw content, mostly, sometimes. But the draw commands are what put it all
> together.
>
> For instance, you might have a paragraph of text where there is one draw
> command per line, or you might have a paragraph of text where is one draw
> command per character.

Getting to the individual draw commands for the text/characters would
be a first step ...and maybe even enough for what I am after. Is this
what the CGPDFOperatorTableSetCallback() is for?

> For an image that fills the page, you might have one
> content stream and one draw command, or you might have multiple image slices
> with one content stream and one draw command for each slice.

Would a PDF writer really slice the images up?

> IOW, what you want is not so simple.

I see.

Well, I probably don't really need the image extraction
Just getting the text draw commands might suffice.

cheers
--
Torsten
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