Coordinates in a PDF

[Guest]

Can anyone tell the exact procedure to extract the coordinates of each word in a pdf file?

[lrosenth]

Using which part of the Acrobat SDK? Have you read the documentation and the sample code and still unable to determine what you need? What specific aspects seems to be confusing to you?

[Guest]

I am using acrobat Pro DC. I've already read through the documentation of coordinates but was not able to find anything concrete. I was able to get the coordinates in pre-flight mode after doing pdf analysis but I'm not able to extract them out of adobe Pro DC. I need code to extract those coordinates.

[lrosenth]

So you’ve downloaded the Acrobat SDK and reviewed the documentation there? Which of the modesl of the SDK are you using? IAC or Plugins?

[Guest]

Yes. I'm using IAC. Basically, through documentation, I'm aware of the fact that I need to extract the user space coordinates. I'm just not able to find the exact code/syntax to be used to extract coordinates in python. If you can help me with the code in Javascript/VB or any other languge also, it'll be a great help as afterwards I can use a wrapper.

[lrosenth]

Look at the documentation for getNthPageWord in JavaScript.