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GetPageText function improvement

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Topic: GetPageText function improvement

Posted By: Dmitry
Subject: GetPageText function improvement
Date Posted: 15 May 07 at 8:55AM

Hi all!

Please tell me, is it possible to add one option to ExtractOptions that will be return the same information as option 3 and list of coordinates of each letter in the line? It's would be help to search the position of each word(or letter) in the text.

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Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 15 May 07 at 9:04AM

Dmitry!

It's one of the hardest you want.
Who wants to wait on such a function?
PDF doesn't save the positions of single letters - only the strings like they were inserted. Can you imagine how long a function will work in calculating with string-length, starting point, ending-point, font-height, font-width to get the position for single letters? I won't use such a function for documents over two pages ;-)

Best regards,
Ingo

Posted By: Dmitry
Date Posted: 16 May 07 at 11:02AM

Ok, Ingo. I see!