Extract Text from PDF with font

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I m trying to develop an application in which i Draw a rectangle on PDF using Accusoft pdfXpress rectangle tool, Now i have coordinates of the paragraph i selected. Now what i want to do is Text extract from this region with font.
I've already extracted plain text from many libraries like itextsharp, PDFBOX, Aspose but i m unable to fetch text with font. Please Provide some help regarding this.

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Posted 26-Aug-13 23:09pm

choudhary.sumit

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SaqibRasheed · Answer 1 · 2013-08-27T10:24:00

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I used pdftotxt provided by http://www.pdf2txt.com/[^] in one of my projects; I was also required to have almost the same functionality like yours and that file helped me getting the font information of a pdf document. It creates a text file of the provided pdf file.

Posted 27-Aug-13 10:24am

SaqibRasheed