PdfDocumentProcessor.GetText(PdfDocumentArea) Method

Retrieves the text found in the specified document area.

Namespace: DevExpress.Pdf

Assembly: DevExpress.Docs.v20.2.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Document.Processor

NuGet Packages: DevExpress.Document.Processor, DevExpress.WindowsDesktop.Document.Processor

Declaration

C#

public string GetText(
    PdfDocumentArea area
)

VB.NET

Public Function GetText(
    area As PdfDocumentArea
) As String

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
area	PdfDocumentArea	A PdfDocumentArea object.

Returns

Type	Description
String	The content retrieved from the specified area.

Remarks

The overloaded GetText method uses the page coordinate system. Refer to the following help topic for more details: Coordinate Systems.

Pass the PdfTextExtractionOptions object as the method parameter to extract text without clipping the content to the crop box.

The code sample below retrieves text from a specific part of the document.

C#

using (PdfDocumentProcessor processor = new PdfDocumentProcessor())
{
    processor.LoadDocument("TextExtraction.pdf");
    PdfPage page = processor.Document.Pages[0];

    PdfRectangle pdfRectangle = new PdfRectangle(page.CropBox.Left / 3, page.CropBox.Bottom, page.CropBox.Right / 3, page.CropBox.Top);
    PdfDocumentArea pageArea = new PdfDocumentArea(1, pdfRectangle);

    string pageText = processor.GetText(pageArea);
    Console.WriteLine(pageText);
}

VB.NET

Using processor As New PdfDocumentProcessor()
  processor.LoadDocument("TextExtraction.pdf")
  Dim page As PdfPage = processor.Document.Pages(0)

  Dim pdfRectangle As New PdfRectangle(page.CropBox.Left / 3, page.CropBox.Bottom, page.CropBox.Right / 3, page.CropBox.Top)
  Dim pageArea As New PdfDocumentArea(1, pdfRectangle)

  Dim pageText As String = processor.GetText(pageArea)
  Console.WriteLine(pageText)
End Using