Extract text location

[jackson_chen1101]

Dear all

is it possible we can extract all text from a page of PDF with text location or coordinates by writing a script. Thanks

[Test Screen Name]

Yes. Look up getPageNthWord and getPageNthWordQuads.

[Guest]

Please check out this link: http://help.adobe.com/livedocs/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp...

getPageNthWordQuads will only give quad property of the Annotation object which can be used for constructing text markup, underline, strikeout, highlight and squiggly annotations. How will this return the coordinates of the word?

[Bernd Alheit]

getPageNthWordQuads returns the coordinates of the word.

[Test Screen Name]

To create annotations, markup etc the coordinates are needed. Examine what a "quad" type contains and bear in mind that text, which does not exist at a single point, does not have a single coordinate; rather it occupies space. The baseline is not provided.