Can we have exclude box in Page.Crop functionality

[sreeni5493]

To exclude a list of boxes based on bounding box locations.

Also can Page Crop have capabilities to include multiple bbox to crop multiple areas. For including it is fine since we can run a for loop and get text inside mulitple crop box. But for excluding, this technique wont work.

[jsvine]

Hi @sreeni5493, I agree: I think that could be a useful feature. Thanks for the suggestion. Adding it to my to-do list.

[jsvine]

You can now call Page.outside_bbox(...): https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/releases/tag/v0.7.4

If you have multiple bounding boxes you want to exclude, you can chain calls to .outside_bbox(...) or loop through them. E.g.,:

page = pdf.pages[0]
bboxes = [ bbox_0, bbox_1, bbox_2 ]
for bbox in bboxes:
  page = page.outside_bbox(bbox)