How to output text and char to JSON file at the same time?

[trulymust]

Hello,developer，I now have a requirement to output text and char to JSON files at the same time. but,Your document shows that this operation is not supported. I can only manually implement it later?

My idea is to add char span under text span to display the position and content of single characters in each line.
Thank you!

[JorjMcKie]

The two variants (generated by "dict" and "rawdict", respectively) differ in the span level only.
In the first case case, the span has the key "text", the rawdict spans have "chars" instead.

So you could generate "rawdict" output, then walk through each of its spans, concatenate all char["c"] of its "chars" and put the result in the span as "text" key.

for b in page.get_text("rawdict", flags=..., clip=..., etc.)["blocks"]:
    for l in b["lines"]:
        for s in l["spans"]:
            s["text"] = "".join([c["c"] for c in s["chars"]])

[trulymust]

Thanks for your reply, Best wishees for you

[JorjMcKie]

To output to a JSON file, you could even write a small JSON output plugin which does the above.
That would reduce the additional memory load and processing time to a minimum.