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    Posted: 15 Jul 20 at 7:41PM
How to remove only text from the page so that the graphics remain?
If I use DeleteContentStream, I get a blank page..
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Hi aderg,

no real solution for this.
With extract functionality you can try to determine the area where the text blocks are...
With draw functionality you can overwrite these areas with white colour for example.

Perhaps it's better to do it the other way round extracting the things you want to have onto  new blank pages...

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote aderg Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Jul 20 at 8:10PM
"you can overwrite these areas with white colour" - it’s not good if the text was drawn over the picture
"extracting the things you want to have onto  new blank pages" - this only works with bitmaps, but how to extract vector graphics?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Ingo Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16 Jul 20 at 3:22PM
that are easy steps you can do for similar results.
Not a good solution that's true ;-)
There isn't any built-in-function for your needs.
You have to read the online reference and the developer guide and develope your own solution with a little help by QuickPDF ;-)

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Thanks, I read the developer guide :)
But I did not find the ability to delete text, as well as the ability to copy all content without text..
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Now you know the reason - there isn't any special direct functionality ;-)

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Dear sir,
Could you please give a sample to draw functionality you can overwrite these areas with white colour above certain text.
High appreciation for your support!
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There is a sample of using GetPageText to get the position of each text item here at:
http://quickpdf.org/forum/extracting-text-by-csv-coordinates_topic3805_post15214.html

Then for each text item you can draw a filled box over it with SetFillColor and DrawBox

Check the Reference Guide for the options for these functions.


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Hi,

If there is no built-in solution nor a better suggestion for this and you REALLY want to have the job done, you can try to eliminate each character in the content stream. 
Usually text looks like this:
(HELLO WORLD) or like this:
(H) 2.342 (E) 2.122 (L) 2.214 (L) 2.434 (O) 9.342 (W) 2.12 (O) 2.21 (R) 2.34 (L) 2.12 (D) 
Now you can try to replace all (H)s and (E)s and so on with one space in brackets "( )" and each full word found by text extraction with spaces without brackets:

Select a ContentStream and call 
DebenuPDFLibrary1811.ReplaceTag("HELLO", "     ")
DebenuPDFLibrary1811.ReplaceTag("WORLD", "     ")
DebenuPDFLibrary1811.ReplaceTag("(H)", "( )")
DebenuPDFLibrary1811.ReplaceTag("(E)", "( )")
and repeat it with the complete alphabet.
Please check if your graphs are affected. No warranty!

Feedback appreciated

Martin
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Thanks for your useful reply! Good luck!
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Originally posted by Sopracenery Sopracenery wrote:

...you can try to eliminate each character in the content stream. 
Usually text looks like this:
(HELLO WORLD) or like this:
(H) 2.342 (E) 2.122 (L) 2.214 (L) 2.434 (O) 9.342 (W) 2.12 (O) 2.21 (R) 2.34 (L) 2.12 (D) ...
how to check if stream looks this way?
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Originally posted by mandriospo mandriospo wrote:

Originally posted by Sopracenery Sopracenery wrote:

...you can try to eliminate each character in the content stream. 
Usually text looks like this:
(HELLO WORLD) or like this:
(H) 2.342 (E) 2.122 (L) 2.214 (L) 2.434 (O) 9.342 (W) 2.12 (O) 2.21 (R) 2.34 (L) 2.12 (D) ...
how to check if stream looks this way?

Mostly this won't work.
Try to open a pdf with notepad and browse through the content. Most content you'll not be able to read few content you will be able and this will give you an idea what's possible and what not.

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