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Participant
Jul 24, 2023 7:18 AM UTC
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Is there a way to extract the specific content related to a tagged PDF element?

There are many developer SDKs that can extract the tag tree of a tagged PDF (a PDF with accessibility markup), and there are many that can extract the PDF content as one big text string.

 

However I need to find the specific content which each tag points to in the PDF. I know Acrobat has this data because you can clearly see it in the tag tree in Acrobat (picture attached), but is this programmatically possible through an API?

 

thank you

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Bernd Alheit
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Jul 24, 2023 10:02 AM UTC

It is possible when you create a plugin (written in C/C++) for Adobe Acrobat.

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Participant
Jul 24, 2023 11:30 AM UTC

Can you explain a bit? Is there a code example or API for this? Why only in a plugin?

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Bernd Alheit
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Jul 24, 2023 11:43 AM UTC

"Why only in a plugin?"

It is not possible with IAC, OLE, or Javascript.

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