Hi,
you can take a look at org.apache.pdfbox.examples.util.PrintTextLocations.java
which gives you a sample of outputting the location of individual characters.
BR
Maruan Sahyoun
Am 17.02.2014 um 16:18 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com>:
> I've come up with a good way to insert color-filled rectangles through the
> use of Overlay (so that they are rendered behind the text instead of the
> front of it.)
>
> However, how do I get the text coordinates? For example, I'd like to get the
> coordinates for every occurrence of the word "mark me" so that I can create a
> new PDDocument with filled rectangles and then overlay the original over it.
> Currently, I have:
>
> PDDocument document = PDDocument.load("src.pdf");
> PDDocument underContent = new PDDocument();
> PDPage underPage = new PDPage();
> PDPageContentStream contStrm = new PDPageContentStream(underContent,
> underPage);
> contStrm.setNonStrokingColor(Color.yellow);
>
> contStrm.fillRect(/* Here I need the coordinates */);
>
> contStrm.close();
> underContent.addPage(underPage);
>
> Overlay overlay = new Overlay();
> overlay.overlay(document, underContent);
> underContent.save("out.pdf");
> underContent.close();
>
>
> On 17/02/14 13:52, Maruan Sahyoun wrote:
>> [...]
>> If you would like to make the highlight part of the PDF you could
>> create an annotation or draw a rectangle behind the text.
>>
>> Steps would be a. find the text b. get the coordinates of the text c.
>> create an annotation or a rectangle around the coordinates
>>
>> You could also use the information in the highlight xml file to get
>> the coordinates for the annotation/rectangle
>>
>> Am 17.02.2014 um 12:09 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> It is not apparent how to save a PDF after I highlight some text in
>>> it. For example:
>>>
>>> PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load("source.pdf"); PDFHighlighter hl =
>>> new PDFHighlighter(); java.io.FileWriter xml = new
>>> java.io.FileWriter("tmp.xml"); hl.generateXMLHighlight(doc, "450",
>>> xml);
>>>
>>> How do I now save source.pdf (or a copy of it, if overwriting is
>>> not possible) with the text highlighted?
