Is there a way to extract the specific content related to a tagged PDF element?

[Iddo31257976zlkh]

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

[Bernd Alheit]

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

[Iddo31257976zlkh]

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

[Bernd Alheit]

"Why only in a plugin?"

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

[Thom Parker]

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

By @Iddo31257976zlkh

Haha haha, Ask Adobe why. We just use what they give us. 

Download the Acrobat SDK and look at the provided examples. Read the documentation. 

https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/library/plugin/index.html