Removing formatting from selected text

[navnathk23503600]

Hello,

I have written a plugin to select highlighted text from PDF document.

However,text I get from PDF document is retrieved with actual formatting, for example, new line etc.

I want the text without any formatting.

Here is the code snippet to get the highlight annotated text.

Here is my code for getting the annotated text:

1. ACCB1 ASBool ACCB2 pdTextSelectEnumTextProc(void* procObj, PDFont font, ASFixed size, PDColorValue color, char* text, ASInt32 textLen) 
2. { 
3.   char stringBuffer[200]; 
4.   strcpy(stringBuffer, text); 
5.   ss << stringBuffer; 
6.   return true; 
7. } 

1. if (ASAtomFromString("Highlight") == PDAnnotGetSubtype(annot)) 
2.   { 
3.   // Gets the annotation's rect 
4.   PDAnnotGetRect(annot, &boundingRect); 
5.   // Gets the text selection from the annotation's rect 
6.   PDTextSelect textSelect = PDDocCreateTextSelect(pdDoc, pageNum, &boundingRect); 
7.   // create a callback to get the text from highlighted bounding box 
8.   PDTextSelectEnumText(textSelect, ASCallbackCreateProto(PDTextSelectEnumTextProc, &pdTextSelectEnumTextProc), &annBuf); 
9.  
10.   MessageBox(NULL, ss.str().c_str(), NULL, NULL); 
11.   } 

String stream contains the string with all formatting.

How can I get the text without any formatting?

Thanks

[Test Screen Name]

1. You do not check the string length before strcpy. This is a serious bug.

2. If you don't want newlines you can strip them or change them to spaces.

[navnathk23503600]

I am not able to replace the new line with any other character.

I am comparing each word with \n\r, It seems that PDF formatting character is different for new line.

I can't see \n or \r in the text when I compare.

Please tell me how can I strip them?

Thanks.

[Test Screen Name]

What are the hex values?

[navnathk23503600]

Sorry I did not get. Which hex values do you mean?

[navnathk23503600]

Hello,

I did some debugging. Hex value is x85

[Test Screen Name]

You mentioned ellipsis (...) in some other post I think? If so we should consider that in Latin1 encodings that 0x85 is an ellipsis (single character for three dots). It is not layout.