Well, basically just extract it to load it into another PDF but it
should be possible e.g. with the mouse.
On 2015-01-14 22:52, Maruan Sahyoun wrote:
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
