de.citec.scie.pdf.structure.AbstractLineSegment Maven / Gradle / Ivy

/*
 * SCIE -- Spinal Cord Injury Information Extraction
 * Copyright (C) 2013, 2014
 * Raphael Dickfelder, Jan Göpfert, Benjamin Paaßen, Andreas Stöckel
 * 
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package de.citec.scie.pdf.structure;

/**
 * The AbstractLineSegment interface represents a simple line in one dimensional
 * space, given by a start position and an end position.
 *
 * @author Andreas Stoeckel - astoecke(at)techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
 */
public interface AbstractLineSegment {

	/**
	 * Returns the start index of the word in the text.
	 *
	 * @return the start index of the word in the text.
	 */
	public int getBegin();

	/**
	 * Returns the end index of the word in the text.
	 *
	 * @return the end index of the word in the text.
	 */
	public int getEnd();

}