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Finding Text/Paragraph rectangles

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Topic: Finding Text/Paragraph rectangles

Posted By: dhart
Subject: Finding Text/Paragraph rectangles
Date 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.

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Posted By: Ingo
Date 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