Word (PDFxStream API Reference)

All Superinterfaces:

OutputSource, Span
```
public interface Word
extends Span
```
A Word Span is a contiguous run of characters (TextUnits) within a single Line. Note that "word" here should not be inferred to carry any specific linguistic meaning: a Word is only indicative of character adjacency (i.e. no intervening whitespace), not the result of any kind of natural language analysis. Thus, a line of text like this:
```
     she picked........the flower
 
```
contains 3 "Word"s (the second being picked......the).
Since:

v4.0

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`Direction`	`direction()`	Returns the direction of the text flow within this `Word`.
`int`	`len()`	Returns a count of how many `TextUnit`s are within this `Word`.
`int`	`start()`	Returns the `index` of the first `TextUnit` within this `Word`.

Methods inherited from interface com.snowtide.pdf.OutputSource
pipe, pipe

- Method Detail
  - start
```
int start()
```
    Returns the index of the first TextUnit within this Word.
  - len
```
int len()
```
    Returns a count of how many TextUnits are within this Word.
  - direction
```
Direction direction()
```
    Returns the direction of the text flow within this Word. This value determines the iteration order of the TextUnits within this Word.