I had to do a similar thing for a large insurance company that had thousands of PDFs created using Word, Quark, etc., and needed them converted to fillable PDFs. I had to find all of the text and graphics (mostly long horizontal lines) and drop fields on top of them, and then build a UI component to allow them to associate the fields with stuff out of the database. It works well, but it's not something terribly easy to do. I had to use iText and Apache's PDFBox to pull it off. You'll need to download the PDF spec and become familiar with how a PDF is constructed. Probably a few weeks worth, but it's doable.
On Jun 15, 2009, at 2:52 AM, beppecosta wrote: > > Hello, > > is there a way to scan a pdf for given string markers (like "#1", > #2", or > similar patterns) and get their x,y coordinates ? > > Step 2 would be to put some text or images or some other content > right over > these markers. > > Or - are there some other suggestions - to automate this process ? > > Thanks. > Giuseppe. > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Put-Replace-text-at-x%2Cy-tp24030945p24030945.html > Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php > Check the site with examples before you ask questions: > http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ > You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ The human mind is an iterative processor, it never does anything right the first time. What it does well is to make improvements on every iteration (deMarco) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
