Text orientation

[matteodefra]

Explanation

Hello, I have some PDF documents which contains normal text with portrait orientation and a lateral text on the page side which is oriented in landscape mode.
How can I tell PyPDF2 to extract only text that is oriented in portrait mode as the page orientation and to ignore the landscape text?

I attach an image example

Basically what I want is to extract the series of "example" above and ignore the three "example" rotated by 90 degrees

Thank you in advance for your help

[MartinThoma]

Some more evidence that people want this feature: https://stackoverflow.com/q/52530293/562769

[pubpub-zz]

@MartinThoma, @MasterOdin , @mtd91429,
the current parameters are the following:
extract_text( self, Tj_sep: str = "", TJ_sep: str = "", space_width: float = 200.0) -> str

Tj_sep and TJ_sep are no more used : I would propose to take opportunity of introducing the orientation to remove them:
extract_text( self, orientations : Union[int, Tuple[int]] = (0,90,270,360), space_width: float = 200.0) -> str

Your opinion ?
edited to add a single int as acceptable

[pubpub-zz]

some examples of calls:
page.extract_text(0) => extract all text strings oriented up
page.extract_text((0,)) => extract all text strings oriented up (synonym)
page.extract_text((0,180)) => extract all text strings oriented up or down

[MartinThoma]

Thank you so much @pubpub-zz ! I didn't think that this was possible 😲

@matteodefra We will have a release towmorrow with this change.

[matteodefra]

Thank you so much @pubpub-zz and @MartinThoma !

[Liin159]

@matteodefra eventually, does this solution work?