Hi Karen, unfortunately I don’t fully understand the issue you are describing, but you can’t rely on the fact that text is at a specific position within a PDF file.
BR Maruan Sahyoun Am 03.02.2014 um 22:57 schrieb Karen Lindholm <[email protected]>: > I have written a program using PDFBox that looks into a PDF file and pulls > out characters from the 20th through 36th position in the file. It works > fine with a simple PDF file I created using Word 2010 and saving as PDF. I > have an application that is exporting to a PDF file and my program is > pulling some text from the third line of the file. I am not sure why this > is happening. Does anyone know if any issues trying to look into a PDF file > that was saved in an older format? > > Thanks, > Karen
