Finding Text/Paragraph rectangles

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   I need to find the rectangles that make up the paragraphs and/or blocks
of text in a PDF page. I have looked at iTextSharp and DataLogics. The
best I have been able to do is find individual words. However, I can not seem to find the rectangle that holds the entire block of text. 

My goal is to rasterize a page.  The use C# to draw outlines around the text blocks/paragraphs in each page.

I am using C#. Can Quick PDF do this for me?  Please let me know.

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dhart Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 15 Apr 09 Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote dhart Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Finding Text/Paragraph rectangles Posted: 15 Apr 09 at 5:27PM
	I need to find the rectangles that make up the paragraphs and/or blocks of text in a PDF page. I have looked at iTextSharp and DataLogics. The best I have been able to do is find individual words. However, I can not seem to find the rectangle that holds the entire block of text. My goal is to rasterize a page. The use C# to draw outlines around the text blocks/paragraphs in each page. I am using C#. Can Quick PDF do this for me? Please let me know.

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3524	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 Apr 09 at 12:38AM
	Hi! The rectangles for textstrings or even single words you can get in QuickPDF with the textextract-functions and option 3 (strings) or 4 (single words). With this functions you'll get the four values for the points top, left/ bottom, left/top, right/ bottom, right of each word ... the necessary values for your rectangle. Cheers, Ingo