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Find a word in a PDF document and get X Y

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Topic: Find a word in a PDF document and get X Y

Posted By: JMLM
Subject: Find a word in a PDF document and get X Y
Date 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

Replies:

Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 07 May 13 at 11:39AM

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.

Cheers, Ingo

Posted By: JMLM
Date Posted: 08 May 13 at 9:08AM

Thanks Ingo, very interressant.

Posted By: AndrewC
Date Posted: 08 May 13 at 1:48PM

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.