Not that I know of. PDFBox provides mostly low level access to the PDF format. The only relatively easy way to do it would be keep the TextPosition objects and also grab the text output of the PDFTextStripper. Then you can search the output (a String) for the position of the word you are looking for and get the position in the PDF Page from the corresponding TextPosition objects. Other than that... I can think of other ways but would take longer to implement. Sorry, I would write a sample, but I'm not at my desk right now.
Alin On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Sireesha Chilakamarri < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Allin, > > I am able to run the PrintTextLocations example. This gives me the > locations details for every characters. > > Is there a easier way to get coordinates for a Word as a whole, instead of > all its characters? > > To Search for Text, I used a method prescribed in > > http://www.programming-free.com/2012/11/simple-word-search-in-pdf-files-using.html > . > > Is there a easier way to Search for Text as well? > > Are there no direct APIs? > > Thank you, > Sireesha > > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Alin Mazilu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You have to extend the PDFTextStripper class and override the > > processTextPosition(...) method. From there the logic depends on you. You > > can also override the writePage() method to grab the charactersByArticle > > Vector and then you would look for your words in there by iterating over > > it. Basically in both cases you will grab all TextPosition objects and > > figure out your position and height/width form there. > > > > ~Alin > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Sireesha Chilakamarri < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I would like to Search and Obtain Text Position (X/Y/Width/height) for > > the > > > searched Text. > > > > > > Suppose text "Hello_World" appears at different location and on > different > > > pages on the PDF document, I would like to see its X/Y/Width/Height for > > > every occurence. > > > > > > How do I achieve this? > > > > > > Thank you, > > > Sireesha > > > > > >
