Hello pdfbox people!
I was wondering if anybody can help me with my needs. What I am looking
for is a possibility to extract the underlying PDF code from a PDF file
by simply selecting an area with your mouse.
After reading a few things about PDFs I have learned that anything that
has to do with extraction anything from a PDF can be a quite hard task.
So I was wondering if pdfbox could do that somehow. I've taken a rough
look at the PDFReader and I noticed that there is e.g.
processTextPosition from the class PageDrawer that seem to allow me to
get at least the position from Text - am I right in assuming that?
My concrete question would be what is possible with pdfbox regarding
this matter? E.g. I have a PDF on my drive which text seems to be
"extractable" by pdfbox on the one hand but on the other hand the
PDFReader is not able to render any of it. It just renders the images
(see attachment).
Thank you for your help in advance!
Best regards,
Stefan
