What are the requirements for text to be searchable in PDF?
What I'm doing is this.
I'm trying to create an alternate method to generate mainframe xerox forms.
I've created a parser for the xerox form language that will create
PDFTemplates.
When I go to match the report data to the template I have to be very
explicit (the forms are many, and very complex), So I determine the spacing
to use and put the report line to the template 1 character at a time.
---CODE SAMPLE---
formTemplate.beginText();
formTemplate.setFontAndSize(baseFont, pointSize);
//Write out the report line a character at a time
for (int i=1; i < lineSize; i++) {
if (String.valueOf(lineChar[i]).trim().length() > 0 &&
!Character.isISOControl(lineChar[i])) {
formTemplate.setTextMatrix(new Float(xVar).floatValue(),
height - (new Float(yVar).floatValue()));
formTemplate.showText(String.valueOf(lineChar[i]));
}
xVar = xVar + charSpacing;
}
formTemplate.endText();
---CODE SAMPLE END---
My problem is the report data is not searchable. I've tried putting the
data out in "words" (buffer until space), and using setCharacterSpacing()
to keep things looking good. But if I use setCharacterSpacing(>1) the
report data is not searchable either.
Thanks for the help,
Matt
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