Export characters from a specific field

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January 25, 2024
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How can I export the characters (10-12 characters) within a certain area of a PDF document (A4) to txt?

Does anyone have any ideas or guidance on this matter? Thank you.

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try67

Community Expert

A script can be used to identify text in a specific part of a page, but it's not a trivial task.
You would need to iterate over the entire page's contents, checking the quads array for each word, which defines its location(s) on the page, and compare it to a known rectangle that represents the area you're looking for.

Nesa Nurani

Community Expert

Is this a form field or a plain text?

Where exactly do you want to export it?

idjevAuthor

Known Participant

Pdf file as shown in attachment,

I want to transfer the marked part to a .txt file

Thom Parker

Community Expert

The text in that image looks very much like a form field. Is it a form field? Or is it text that is part of the page content.

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

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