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<body><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Hello,</p>
<br><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">I've just posted a new pull-request at <a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/merge_requests/318">https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/merge_requests/318</a>.</p>
<br><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">My interest is mainly around OCR/OMR (Optical Music Recognition) tasks where the goal is to recover numerical documents from images and pdfs.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">My main goal is to use cairo to extract every drawing and glyphs from pdf so that I can train models for symbol classification/detection and semantical reconstruction.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">The current main missing bit of information from the svg output of cairo is the utf8 string of glyph.</p>
<br><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">My merge request aims to add this information with as little modifications as possible both in the code and in the svg output.</p>
<br><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">I hope this kind of use-cases will interest some people and help me merge this feature.</p>
<br><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Let me know if there are anything I should in order to improve my contribution.</p>
<br><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Best regards,</p>
<br><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Kwon-Young Choi</p>
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