How to extract text and word co-ordinates from pdf ?

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From the text PDF how to extract text and how to get word co-ordinates?It will be helpful ,if u have idea using Itextsharp.Can we use any SDK or plug-in to achieve the above scenario?

Thanks in Advance

Posted 12-Aug-13 21:02pm

jai_mca

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ridoy · Answer 1 · 2013-08-12T22:14:00

Solution 1

Check these..
Extract Text from PDF in C# (100% .NET)[^]
Extract PDF text by coordinates[^]
Extract text from pdf to c#[^]
Using-itextsharp-to-extract-text-from.html[^]

Posted 12-Aug-13 22:14pm

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jai_mca 16-Aug-13 3:20am

thanks a lot ridoy. i want to extract text and word co-ordinates from the text pdf using iTextSharp. in the below mentioned link i have uploaded text pdf.for that pdf can anybody able to find word co-ordinates? i had no idea on itextsharp
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_nzYHWVJJ7KQ0dPLWdyS2FBWUk/edit?usp=sharing

ridoy 16-Aug-13 4:40am

do you check those links,especially 2nd links contains what you want.

jai_mca 16-Aug-13 4:50am

yeah i refer'd it ridoy.But i can't get an idea with iTextSharp.

ridoy 16-Aug-13 5:18am

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4577789/extract-text-and-text-rectangle-coordinates-from-a-pdf-file-using-itextsharp