Best tool for copy&pasting rectangular areas form PDF files?

[aSemy]

Firstly, thanks for this tool!

My problem: I need to process hundreds of PDF files - a daunting task.

Is there a tool where I can open a PDF, drag a rectangle, press ctrl+c (which copies x1,y1,x2,y2 to the clipboard)? Then I can just paste the coords into the exclusions file.

Open source tools are preferred.

(bonus points if it can do image files too - I also have to process image files)

[finsterwalder]

When you start the UI by starting class de.redsix.pdfcompare.Main you can mark ignore areas and write that to a file.

[aSemy]

Thanks @finsterwalder! I figured out how to open the GUI and it's exactly what I wanted. I now realise what you mean, and what the README explains about running the 'full' jar

For anyone else who was confused about how to open up the GUI, here are the steps:

1. Go to https://search.maven.org/artifact/de.redsix/pdfcompare
2. Select the newest/highest version, currently that's 1.1.60
3. In the top left, click 'Downloads', then 'full.jar'
   
4. This will download pdfcompare-1.1.60-full.jar.
5. Now you can run java -jar pdfcompare-1.1.60-full.jar (no arguments) to open the GUI