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   To all of you,

I believe i saw functions allowing to extract text from a page using a rectangle coordinates, and another allowing the getextracttext from the top to the bottom. 

Did i dream?

If not, are these functions only in the 8.xx release (currently i'm a 7.26 user)

Thanks in advance for your help

Rgds
Eric

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darkv Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 17 Jan 11 Status: Offline Points: 38	Post Options Post Reply Quote darkv Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Question Posted: 27 Apr 12 at 11:14PM
	To all of you, I believe i saw functions allowing to extract text from a page using a rectangle coordinates, and another allowing the getextracttext from the top to the bottom. Did i dream? If not, are these functions only in the 8.xx release (currently i'm a 7.26 user) Thanks in advance for your help Rgds Eric

edvoigt Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 26 Mar 11 Location: Berlin, Germany Status: Offline Points: 111	Post Options Post Reply Quote edvoigt Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 28 Apr 12 at 3:12PM
	Hi, no dream, but as you assume: DASetTextExtractionArea / SetTextExtractionArea Version history This function was introduced in Quick PDF Library version 8.13. Description Sets the area for text extraction. Any text that appears outside this area will be excluded from the results. This function affects the results of the ExtractFilePageText and DAExtractPageText functions only. The coordinate values passed into this function are specified in points with the bottom left corner of the page as the origin. The area limitation can be removed by calling this function with a value of zero for both the Width and Height parameters. Cheers, Werner

darkv Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 17 Jan 11 Status: Offline Points: 38	Post Options Post Reply Quote darkv Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 Apr 12 at 11:32AM
	Thanks Werner for your reply. So i have to switch to new release Rgds Eric

AndrewC Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 08 Dec 10 Location: Geelong, Aust Status: Offline Points: 841	Post Options Post Reply Quote AndrewC Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 May 12 at 3:52PM
	You can extract the full page text and then extract only the text you need based on the bounding box data returned from GetPageText(3); DASetTextExtractionArea / SetTextExtractionArea was added to make it easy to extract 1 or 2 pieces of text quickly but the process is not optimised for extracting 20 values for example. If you need to extract many values then it would be better to write your own simple rectangle checking routines. Andrew.