Enum ContentElement 

pub enum ContentElement {
    Text(TextContent),
    Image(ImageContent),
    Path(PathContent),
    Structure(StructureElement),
    Table(TableContent),
}

A content element that can be extracted from or written to a PDF.

This is the unified intermediate representation used by both the read pipeline (PDF → ContentElement) and write pipeline (ContentElement → PDF).

Variants

Text(TextContent)

Text content with positioning and styling

Image(ImageContent)

Image content with position and format information

Path(PathContent)

Vector path/graphics content

Structure(StructureElement)

Structural element (for Tagged PDF support)

Table(TableContent)

Table content with rows and cells

Implementations

impl ContentElement

pub fn bbox(&self) -> Rect

Get the bounding box of this element.

pub fn reading_order(&self) -> Option<usize>

Get the reading order of this element, if assigned.

pub fn is_text(&self) -> bool

Check if this is a text element.

pub fn is_image(&self) -> bool

Check if this is an image element.

pub fn is_path(&self) -> bool

Check if this is a path element.

pub fn is_table(&self) -> bool

Check if this is a table element.

pub fn as_text(&self) -> Option<&TextContent>

Get as text content if this is a text element.

pub fn as_image(&self) -> Option<&ImageContent>

Get as image content if this is an image element.

pub fn as_path(&self) -> Option<&PathContent>

Get as path content if this is a path element.

pub fn as_table(&self) -> Option<&TableContent>

Get as table content if this is a table element.

Trait Implementations

impl Clone for ContentElement

fn clone(&self) -> Self

Returns a duplicate of the value.

fn clone_from(&mut self, source: &Self)

Performs copy-assignment from source.

impl Debug for ContentElement

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.