That's a great suggestion Kevin. I'll look into it.
So basically, I want to highlight and also redact (place a black box
over the text),
so maybe its doable with some clever coding.
On 07/28/2011 07:04 PM, Kevin Day [via iText - General] wrote:
> Don't give up yet!
>
> It is possible to search for a word using the pdf.parser.* API, locate
> the ascender and descender of the word, and add a colored rectangle
> below that position on the page. If all you want to do is add
> hi-lighting, then you can probably do this. If you want to actually
> change the text, then that's a much, much harder problem.
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