you’re welcome. Maybe you can share a code snippet with us when you’re done - would like to make it part of the documentation.
BR Maruan Sahyoun Am 17.02.2014 um 17:57 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]>: > That should work nicely for finding character sequences and constructing > rectangle coordinates. > > Thank you very much for the help! > > > On 17/02/14 17:45, Maruan Sahyoun wrote: >> Hi, >> >> you can take a look at >> org.apache.pdfbox.examples.util.PrintTextLocations.java which gives you a >> sample of outputting the location of individual characters. >> >> BR >> Maruan Sahyoun >> >> >> Am 17.02.2014 um 16:18 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]>: >> >>> I've come up with a good way to insert color-filled rectangles through the >>> use of Overlay (so that they are rendered behind the text instead of the >>> front of it.) >>> >>> However, how do I get the text coordinates? For example, I'd like to get >>> the coordinates for every occurrence of the word "mark me" so that I can >>> create a new PDDocument with filled rectangles and then overlay the >>> original over it. Currently, I have: >>> >>> PDDocument document = PDDocument.load("src.pdf"); >>> PDDocument underContent = new PDDocument(); >>> PDPage underPage = new PDPage(); >>> PDPageContentStream contStrm = new PDPageContentStream(underContent, >>> underPage); >>> contStrm.setNonStrokingColor(Color.yellow); >>> >>> contStrm.fillRect(/* Here I need the coordinates */); >>> >>> contStrm.close(); >>> underContent.addPage(underPage); >>> >>> Overlay overlay = new Overlay(); >>> overlay.overlay(document, underContent); >>> underContent.save("out.pdf"); >>> underContent.close(); >>> >>> >>> On 17/02/14 13:52, Maruan Sahyoun wrote: >>>> [...] >>>> If you would like to make the highlight part of the PDF you could >>>> create an annotation or draw a rectangle behind the text. >>>> >>>> Steps would be a. find the text b. get the coordinates of the text c. >>>> create an annotation or a rectangle around the coordinates >>>> >>>> You could also use the information in the highlight xml file to get >>>> the coordinates for the annotation/rectangle >>>> >>>> Am 17.02.2014 um 12:09 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>>> It is not apparent how to save a PDF after I highlight some text in >>>>> it. For example: >>>>> >>>>> PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load("source.pdf"); PDFHighlighter hl = >>>>> new PDFHighlighter(); java.io.FileWriter xml = new >>>>> java.io.FileWriter("tmp.xml"); hl.generateXMLHighlight(doc, "450", >>>>> xml); >>>>> >>>>> How do I now save source.pdf (or a copy of it, if overwriting is >>>>> not possible) with the text highlighted? >> >> >
