How to get Pdf page words Font properties in adobe acrobat using c++

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October 26, 2022
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Hi Team,

I'm working on Toc pages in Acrobat pdf.

Here I need to identify levels of font properies.

Any suggestions!

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Thom Parker

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If this is for a plug-in, then use the WordFinder.

You can also get font properties using regular page content iteration that returns PDText objects.

This is the techniqued used by PDFCanOpener, which would be a big help to you on this project.

I've used a combination of both on other projects to get more complete text info.

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Ok, I think I understand what you want to do. To analyse the text on a page in a PDF, which contains a TOC, and get the structure of the TOC to make a matching bookmarks.

There are no "levels" in a TOC page, except what you see. Levels may be seen as indenting, larger text, bold fonts, etc. You can use the methods we have said (Word Finder, probably) to get information on the position and font for each word. Then you must use your own rules (guesswork, or programmed specific rules) to decide the level for each word, and put the words together to make the labels for the TOC.