discardDiagonalText

Discard diagonal text.
[read/write property] discardDiagonalText([out, retval] VARIANT_BOOL *discard) discardDiagonalText([in] VARIANT_BOOL discard)
XpdfText normally splits characters into four groups, with 0, 90, 180, and 270 degree rotation. That's useful for the common case where a small amount of text on the page (labels on a graph, for example) is rotated 90 degrees from the main text. It also handles the situation where some text is drawn at a diagonal, as long as it doesn't overlap any other text.

If this property is set to true, XpdfText will discard all text that isn't within a few degrees of one of the 0/90/180/270 degree axes. This can be useful for cases where diagonal text overlaps main body text (e.g., watermarks).

VB:
pdf.discardDiagonalText = True