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Balav483
Balav483
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June 21, 2016
Question

Find a text and get the coordinates of the text

  • June 21, 2016
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Hi All

     I want to find/search text(may be single word or muti line text) in pdf and in addition i would like to get the coordinates of the found text. Is its is possible? using acrobat sdk if possible which api should i use.

Findtext in vb method is used to return the result but i am not able to get its coordinates

Thanks

Bala

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Bernd Alheit
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Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 21, 2016

With the JavaScript API you can check all words in the document.

Look at getPageNthWord and getPageNthWordQuads in the Acrobat JavaScript Reference.

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