Hi Darren,
On 27 July 2011 14:09, sesshomurai <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I read that thread but I didn't find it informative. Given that iText
> loads a PDF
> into a structured format, is it possible to analyse the text elements of
> that PDF?
>
Your assumptions are wrong. The structure used by iText when creating a PDF
(Paragraph, Phrase, Chunk, PdfPTable, etc...) are high level semantics that
are 100% lost in the final document (unless you create a tagged PDF, in such
a case you might be able to save maintain semantics). You should NOT expect
finding such a structure when "loading" an existing PDF document with iText.
> And if so, it should be possible to replace those structured elements with
> new ones
> with the appropriate visual settings?
>
> It seems such a basic thing, but I understand PDF is rather prohibitive in
> this regard.
>
Again your assumptions are wrong. PDF is a format for presentating
documents, not for manipulating them.
Cheers,
alexis
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