I have the pdf editor toolkit. I would like to capture the electronic text
in selected areas of the PDF. How do I go about that?
Regards,
Customer
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Thanks for your message, pdf editor toolkit hasn't an option to capture the electronic text in selected areas of the PDF, if you need this function, you may download "PDF to TEXT Converter SDK" or "PDF Parse & Modify Component for .NET" from our website to try, "PDF to TEXT Converter SDK" does convert entire PDF page to a text file, it doesn't support rectangle, "PDF Parse & Modify Component for .NET" will output PDF page contents to a XML file, this XML file is contain X, Y, Width, Height information for each word, you can write a simple function to get all words in a rectangle easily,
"PDF to TEXT Converter SDK" can be downloaded from following web page,
https://www.verypdf.com/app/pdf-to-txt-converter/try-and-buy.html
"PDF Parse & Modify Component for .NET" can be downloaded from following web page,
https://www.verypdf.com/app/pdftoolbox/try-and-buy.html#buy-pmc
https://www.verypdf.com/dl2.php/pdfparsersdk.zip
This is user guide for "PDF Parse & Modify Component for .NET" product,
https://www.verypdf.com/app/pdftoolbox/parse-modify-guide.html
You will get the text contents in PDF page like below,
666,78,84,14,MORGAN;
761,78,90,14,STANLEY;
862,78,57,14,FIXED;
930,78,76,14,INCOME;
1017,78,107,14,RESEARCH;
OR
<div style="position: absolute;top:2;left:-1"><img width="1275" height="1650" src="out_pg_0001.png"></img></div>
<div style="position:absolute;left:666;top:78;width:84;height:14"><span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:700;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">MORGAN</span></div>
<div style="position:absolute;left:761;top:78;width:90;height:14"><span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:700;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">STANLEY</span></div>
<div style="position:absolute;left:862;top:78;width:57;height:14"><span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:700;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">FIXED</span></div>
You can write a function to get the words in a rectangle by their position easily.
VeryPDF