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On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:59 PM, James Green <[email protected]> wrote: > I am now confused, and I thought this would be a ten minute job... > > I have an A4 PDF document. I know the area of the page an address would be > found. So I created a PDFTextStripperByArea and set a region > correspondingly, named "Address". > > This yielded nothing. Expanding the region randomly showed the address. > Puzzled, I asked for the media box size and it's a lot larger than the size > of A4. > > So if I'm not expected to provide a region in mm, what does it accept? > > Incidentally, the Javadoc > > http://pdfbox.apache.org/docs/1.8.3/javadocs/org/apache/pdfbox/util/PDFTextStripperByArea.html#addRegion(java.lang.String > , > java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D) leads me to wonder what exactly "grouping" > actually does. I imagined the documentation would read: > > "Adds a rectangular area of the page for reading text within." > > Thanks, > > James >
