Hi Tilman; My typo mistake, i mean PDFBox, not iText. However it will be great if iText work as well. tq
regards; andrew On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 7:38 PM, andrew lee <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tilman; > Thanks for the advice. If you notice my attached file, the Account Number: > 0123456789 location will be fixed on every report. > Does this mean PDFTextStripperByArea will be able to read it? > > What if the [First Name], [Last Name] & [Address] is an editable field. > Will iText be able to fill them will information that I obtain from a > database? > > Thanks; > andrew > > On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> reading an area can be done with PDFTextStripperByArea, see in the source >> code or in stackoverflow for examples. If you know where it is. If you >> don't know where it is (e.g. invoice processing), then you'll have to guess >> by the context. >> >> Writing at a placeholder is more difficult. Better don't create the >> placeholder at all, just find out the coordinates and draw your text. >> >> https://pdfbox.apache.org/cookbook/documentcreation.html >> >> Tilman >> >> >> >> Am 04.10.2014 um 03:28 schrieb andrew lee: >> >> Hi; >>> I have a pdf report as per attached file. It contains the following text. >>> Account Number: 0123456789 >>> [First Name] >>> [Last Name] >>> [Address] >>> >>> Using PDFBOX, can I read the Account Number value "0123456789" so that i >>> can cross check with my oracle database, select out the First Name, Last >>> Name and Address and finally fill it into the marker [First Name], [Last >>> Name] & [Address] in the PDF file. Btw i was told that i will be given an >>> editable pdf report. also >>> >>> >>> Kindly advice. tq >>> >> >> >
