Re: [iText-questions] Search Text and Capacity of iText to read.

2013-01-14 Thread Kevin Day
look at the PdfReader javadocs - sorry - I'm very busy right now - just search for "partial" and you'll find it. -- View this message in context: http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/Search-Text-and-Capacity-of-iText-to-read-tp4657270p4657371.html Sent from the iText - General mailing lis

Re: [iText-questions] Search Text and Capacity of iText to read.

2013-01-08 Thread Kevin Day
I didn't notice that you were using SimpleTextExtractionStrategy. You should definitely try using the default text extraction strategy (LocationTextExtractionStrategy) - it's a lot better at pulling meaningful text from PDFs. As for doing text matching while you are doing the extraction, you cert

Re: [iText-questions] Search Text and Capacity of iText to read.

2013-01-07 Thread Kevin Day
Are you actually seeing a limit? My experience is that PDFs with huge numbers of pages wind up with very big in-memory xref tables, and that can consume quite a bit of memory - but if you have enough memory, then there isn't any practical limit that I'm aware of. Some things you can do to reduce