diff --git a/fpdfsdk/fpdftext.cpp b/fpdfsdk/fpdftext.cpp
index 70acf54..2ea06de 100644
--- a/fpdfsdk/fpdftext.cpp
+++ b/fpdfsdk/fpdftext.cpp
@@ -123,6 +123,24 @@
   *top = charinfo.m_CharBox.top;
 }
 
+FPDF_EXPORT FPDF_BOOL FPDF_CALLCONV
+FPDFText_GetCharOrigin(FPDF_TEXTPAGE text_page,
+                       int index,
+                       double* x,
+                       double* y) {
+  if (!text_page)
+    return false;
+  CPDF_TextPage* textpage = CPDFTextPageFromFPDFTextPage(text_page);
+
+  if (index < 0 || index >= textpage->CountChars())
+    return false;
+  FPDF_CHAR_INFO charinfo;
+  textpage->GetCharInfo(index, &charinfo);
+  *x = charinfo.m_Origin.x;
+  *y = charinfo.m_Origin.y;
+  return true;
+}
+
 // select
 FPDF_EXPORT int FPDF_CALLCONV
 FPDFText_GetCharIndexAtPos(FPDF_TEXTPAGE text_page,
diff --git a/fpdfsdk/fpdftext_embeddertest.cpp b/fpdfsdk/fpdftext_embeddertest.cpp
index 65f5734..572368a 100644
--- a/fpdfsdk/fpdftext_embeddertest.cpp
+++ b/fpdfsdk/fpdftext_embeddertest.cpp
@@ -71,6 +71,12 @@
   EXPECT_NEAR(49.844, bottom, 0.001);
   EXPECT_NEAR(55.520, top, 0.001);
 
+  double x = 0.0;
+  double y = 0.0;
+  EXPECT_TRUE(FPDFText_GetCharOrigin(textpage, 4, &x, &y));
+  EXPECT_NEAR(40.664, x, 0.001);
+  EXPECT_NEAR(50.000, y, 0.001);
+
   EXPECT_EQ(4, FPDFText_GetCharIndexAtPos(textpage, 42.0, 50.0, 1.0, 1.0));
   EXPECT_EQ(-1, FPDFText_GetCharIndexAtPos(textpage, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0));
   EXPECT_EQ(-1, FPDFText_GetCharIndexAtPos(textpage, 199.0, 199.0, 1.0, 1.0));
diff --git a/fpdfsdk/fpdfview_c_api_test.c b/fpdfsdk/fpdfview_c_api_test.c
index 8276eb6..88b7465 100644
--- a/fpdfsdk/fpdfview_c_api_test.c
+++ b/fpdfsdk/fpdfview_c_api_test.c
@@ -254,6 +254,7 @@
     CHK(FPDFText_GetUnicode);
     CHK(FPDFText_GetFontSize);
     CHK(FPDFText_GetCharBox);
+    CHK(FPDFText_GetCharOrigin);
     CHK(FPDFText_GetCharIndexAtPos);
     CHK(FPDFText_GetText);
     CHK(FPDFText_CountRects);
diff --git a/public/fpdf_text.h b/public/fpdf_text.h
index c069144..4a76a7f 100644
--- a/public/fpdf_text.h
+++ b/public/fpdf_text.h
@@ -113,6 +113,27 @@
                                                    double* bottom,
                                                    double* top);
 
+// Function: FPDFText_GetCharOrigin
+//          Get origin of a particular character.
+// Parameters:
+//          text_page   -   Handle to a text page information structure.
+//          Returned by FPDFText_LoadPage function.
+//          index       -   Zero-based index of the character.
+//          x           -   Pointer to a double number receiving x coordinate of
+//          the character origin.
+//          y           -   Pointer to a double number receiving y coordinate of
+//          the character origin.
+// Return Value:
+//          Whether the call succeeded. If false, x and y are unchanged.
+// Comments:
+//          All positions are measured in PDF "user space".
+//
+FPDF_EXPORT FPDF_BOOL FPDF_CALLCONV
+FPDFText_GetCharOrigin(FPDF_TEXTPAGE text_page,
+                       int index,
+                       double* x,
+                       double* y);
+
 // Function: FPDFText_GetCharIndexAtPos
 //          Get the index of a character at or nearby a certain position on the
 //          page.