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    Posted: 07 May 13 at 11:30AM
Hi,
Does it possible to find a specific word in a PDF and get it x y position ?
Thanks.
Jim
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Hi Jim!
Yes. Use the text-extract functions with option 3 or 7.
You can extract the text page by page and word by word
with the position- and font-data in csv-format.
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Thanks Ingo, very interressant. 
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The new TextBlocks functions will be a little easier to use as you do not need to parse the CSV string.  Here is an example bit of code using the DA functions.  QP.ExtractPageTextBlocks can be used with QP.LoadFromFile.

            int fh = QP.DAOpenFile("in.pdf", "");
            int ph = QP.DAFindPage(fh, 1);

            int textID = QP.DAExtractPageTextBlocks(fh, ph, 3);

            for (int i = 1; i <= QP.GetTextBlockCount(textID); i++)
            {
                string line = QP.GetTextBlockText(textID, i);

                OutputTxt.AppendText(line + "\n");
            }

            QP.ReleaseTextBlocks(textID);
            QP.DACloseFile(fh);

Andrew.
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