what would you like to do with that content? BR Maruan
Am 14.01.2015 um 21:42 schrieb Stefan Falk <[email protected]>: > 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
