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7R %H $SSURYHG You wrote that you encode your string to find it - what do you get? BR Maruan > Am 23.03.2015 um 22:01 schrieb a7med shre3y <a7med.shr...@gmail.com>: > > Hi Maruan, > > Here's a link from where you can download the PDF. > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5Kxacm1mej-bm82NzNvUXFPSmMtUjc0ZFVjVVlrODZnRzdn/view?usp=sharing > > Kind Regards, > a7mad > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <sahy...@fileaffairs.de> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> you need to upload it to a public location as the mailing list doesn't >> support attachments. >> >> BR >> Maruan >> >>> Am 23.03.2015 um 19:18 schrieb a7med shre3y <a7med.shr...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> Dear Maruan, >>> >>> Thank you very much for the information. Please find herewith attached >> the PDF to reproduce the problem. >>> The text to remove is: "To Be Approved". The text has a multi-byte >> encoding, so I call first to encode it in order to find it then remove it. >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> a7mad >>> >>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <sahy...@fileaffairs.de> >> wrote: >>>> Dear a7mad, >>>> >>>> removing text from a PDF is not an easy task as >>>> - text which might visually appear as a single item might consistent of >> individual parts within the PDF itself e.g. each character or groups of >> characters are place individually in different COSStrings >>>> - text might be drawn using graphics commands >>>> - text can appear within different parts of the PDF (e.g. the text >> might be content of a form field AND the annotation representing the form >> field visually) >>>> - you need to look up the encoding information to get form the >> characters in the PDF "string" to the ones you are looking for >>>> …. >>>> >>>> If you can post a specific PDF to a public location and describe in >> detail which string should have been replaced which hasn't I will be able >> to tell you why that might have happened. >>>> >>>> Maruan >>>> >>>> >>>>> Am 23.03.2015 um 15:03 schrieb a7med shre3y <a7med.shr...@gmail.com>: >>>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> Currently I am facing a strange problem removing text from the some >> PDFs. >>>>> My program is able to find the text and "remove it" by calling the >>>>> COSString.reset() method. >>>>> The problem is, when I open the output PDF file, I still see the text >> but >>>>> not selectable (I mean when I try to highlight it with the mouse to >> copy >>>>> it, it's not selectable!). When print the content (tokens) of the >> output >>>>> file, I DO NOT find the text at all!! >>>>> >>>>> I am currently stuck in the PDF specifications 1.5 and really running >> out >>>>> of time. >>>>> >>>>> I'd so much appreciate any help or any idea on what's going on. >>>>> >>>>> Notes: >>>>> 1. I use use PDFBox 1.7.1 >>>>> 2. This problem does not occur with all PDFs, only some PDFs cause >> this >>>>> problem. >>>>> >>>>> Thank you very much. >>>>> a7mad >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org
