Re: [iText-questions] Extracting text location for highlighting in reader

2006-03-09 Thread chris
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 06:50:09AM -0500, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > > >So - is iText a good way to extract just the text of a page so that we > >can use it to calculate the offsets? > > No. > > Look at PdfBox or Multivalent. Thanks for the pointer. Seems like the char offset me

Re: [iText-questions] Extracting text location for highlighting in reader

2006-03-09 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 06:01 AM 3/9/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/pdf/HighlightFileFormat.pdf It seems that you pass an XML document to the reader defining where you want highlighting. Correct. However I then need to know the offset on the page of where I

[iText-questions] Extracting text location for highlighting in reader

2006-03-09 Thread chris
I'm looking into how you can ask the acrobat reader web plugin to highlight words so that we can get hit-highlighting of web search working for an application. I've read thru this document: http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/pdf/HighlightFileFormat.pdf It seems that you pass an XML