Thank you Alin. Appreciate your response. I f you can help with a sample code - if you are free sometime, maybe I get a better idea of your explanation.
Sireesha On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Alin Mazilu <[email protected]> wrote: > Not that I know of. PDFBox provides mostly low level access to the PDF > format. The only relatively easy way to do it would be keep the > TextPosition objects and also grab the text output of the PDFTextStripper. > Then you can search the output (a String) for the position of the word you > are looking for and get the position in the PDF Page from the corresponding > TextPosition objects. Other than that... I can think of other ways but > would take longer to implement. Sorry, I would write a sample, but I'm not > at my desk right now. > > Alin > > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Sireesha Chilakamarri < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Allin, > > > > I am able to run the PrintTextLocations example. This gives me the > > locations details for every characters. > > > > Is there a easier way to get coordinates for a Word as a whole, instead > of > > all its characters? > > > > To Search for Text, I used a method prescribed in > > > > > http://www.programming-free.com/2012/11/simple-word-search-in-pdf-files-using.html > > . > > > > Is there a easier way to Search for Text as well? > > > > Are there no direct APIs? > > > > Thank you, > > Sireesha > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Alin Mazilu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > You have to extend the PDFTextStripper class and override the > > > processTextPosition(...) method. From there the logic depends on you. > You > > > can also override the writePage() method to grab the > charactersByArticle > > > Vector and then you would look for your words in there by iterating > over > > > it. Basically in both cases you will grab all TextPosition objects and > > > figure out your position and height/width form there. > > > > > > ~Alin > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Sireesha Chilakamarri < > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I would like to Search and Obtain Text Position (X/Y/Width/height) > for > > > the > > > > searched Text. > > > > > > > > Suppose text "Hello_World" appears at different location and on > > different > > > > pages on the PDF document, I would like to see its X/Y/Width/Height > for > > > > every occurence. > > > > > > > > How do I achieve this? > > > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > Sireesha > > > > > > > > > >
