PdfDocumentProcessor.GetText(PdfDocumentPosition, PdfDocumentPosition) Method

Retrieves the text located between the specified document positions.

Namespace: DevExpress.Pdf

Assembly: DevExpress.Docs.v23.2.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Document.Processor

Declaration

C#

public string GetText(
    PdfDocumentPosition startPosition,
    PdfDocumentPosition endPosition
)

VB.NET

Public Function GetText(
    startPosition As PdfDocumentPosition,
    endPosition As PdfDocumentPosition
) As String

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
startPosition	PdfDocumentPosition	A PdfDocumentPosition object that is the initial document position.
endPosition	PdfDocumentPosition	A PdfDocumentPosition object that is the final document position.

Returns

Type	Description
String	A String value that is the target the text.

Remarks

The overloaded GetText method uses the page coordinate system. See the following help topic to learn more: Coordinate Systems.

If there is no text between the specified positions, this method returns text that is nearest to these positions.

C#

using (DevExpress.Pdf.PdfDocumentProcessor processor = new DevExpress.Pdf.PdfDocumentProcessor())
{
    processor.LoadDocument("TextExtraction.pdf");
    PdfDocumentPosition startPosition = new PdfDocumentPosition(1, new PdfPoint(0, 0));
    PdfDocumentPosition endPosition = new PdfDocumentPosition(1, new PdfPoint(500, 500));

    string pageText = processor.GetText(startPosition, endPosition);
    Console.WriteLine(pageText);
}

VB.NET

Using processor As New DevExpress.Pdf.PdfDocumentProcessor()
  processor.LoadDocument("TextExtraction.pdf")
  Dim startPosition As New PdfDocumentPosition(1, New PdfPoint(0, 0))
  Dim endPosition As New PdfDocumentPosition(1, New PdfPoint(500, 500))

  Dim pageText As String = processor.GetText(startPosition, endPosition)
  Console.WriteLine(pageText)
End Using