Search Text from pdf

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Hi,
I need to search string or text in pdf file.
I don't know how to do this and any suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks in Advance.
karthik s.

Posted 5-Apr-11 20:15pm

M.S.Karthikeyan

Updated 5-Apr-11 20:16pm

Ramalinga Koushik

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Kurt Degiorgio · Answer 1 · 2011-04-05T21:58:00

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well if the pdf is image based then this very difficult since you to convert the image to text which will require and OCR if not then you can go through the pdf data and look for text tags and everything in between is a string.

Posted 5-Apr-11 21:58pm

Kurt Degiorgio