Select text from .pdf file and show it on the Richtext box. ? Its Challanging....

[SeemsP]

Hi all,

i am having 3 controls.
Button
AxAcroPDF1
Richtextbox

I select text from pdf file present in AxAcroPDF1 from mouse click, what ever i select immidiately it show be shown on the text on the Richtextbox

 Private Sub Button4_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button4.Click

        Dim dlg As OpenFileDialog = New OpenFileDialog()
        ' set file filter of dialog
        dlg.Filter = "pdf files (*.pdf) |*.pdf;"
        dlg.ShowDialog()
        If dlg.FileName <> "" Then
            AxAcroPDF1.src = dlg.FileName

        End If
    End Sub

Will be waiting for the reply.

Kind Regards
Seema

[SeemsP]

Mean while i just got 1 site in which i found the below code.... But i dnt know how to make it work... so many things r strange i am not getting them how to do... Ur help will be appriciated...

  CAcroAVDoc avDoc;
            CAcroPDDoc pdDoc;
            CAcroRect acroRect = new AcroRectClass();
            CAcroPDTextSelect pdTextSelect;
            int startpage;
            bool bSelectSet = false;
            bool bShowSelect = false;
 
            string szPdfConst = openDialog.FileName;
 

            acroRect.bottom = 225;
            acroRect.Left = 140;
            acroRect.Top = 230;
            acroRect.right = 145;
 
            //Create a new Acrobat App Object
 
            mApp = new AcroAppClass();
            mApp.Show();
            avDoc = new AcroAVDocClass();
 
            //Lets open the PDF now
            if (avDoc.Open(szPdfConst, ""))
            {
                fileStatus.Text = "Adobe Acrobat document loaded succesfully.";
                pdDoc = (CAcroPDDoc)avDoc.GetPDDoc();
                startpage = 0;
 
                pdTextSelect = (CAcroPDTextSelect)pdDoc.CreateTextSelect(startpage, acroRect);

                bSelectSet = avDoc.SetTextSelection(pdTextSelect);

                //If the set was successful
                if (bSelectSet)
                {
                    bShowSelect = avDoc.ShowTextSelect();
                }
            }
            else
            {
                fileStatus.Text = "Adobe Acrobat document could not be loaded.";
            }
        }

The link is http://forums.adobe.com/thread/567307

[SeemsP]

Mean while i just got 1 site in which i found the below code.... But i dnt know how to make it work... so many things r strange i am not getting them how to do... Ur help will be appriciated...

  CAcroAVDoc avDoc;
            CAcroPDDoc pdDoc;
            CAcroRect acroRect = new AcroRectClass();
            CAcroPDTextSelect pdTextSelect;
            int startpage;
            bool bSelectSet = false;
            bool bShowSelect = false;
 
            string szPdfConst = openDialog.FileName;
 

            acroRect.bottom = 225;
            acroRect.Left = 140;
            acroRect.Top = 230;
            acroRect.right = 145;
 
            //Create a new Acrobat App Object
 
            mApp = new AcroAppClass();
            mApp.Show();
            avDoc = new AcroAVDocClass();
 
            //Lets open the PDF now
            if (avDoc.Open(szPdfConst, ""))
            {
                fileStatus.Text = "Adobe Acrobat document loaded succesfully.";
                pdDoc = (CAcroPDDoc)avDoc.GetPDDoc();
                startpage = 0;
 
                pdTextSelect = (CAcroPDTextSelect)pdDoc.CreateTextSelect(startpage, acroRect);

                bSelectSet = avDoc.SetTextSelection(pdTextSelect);

                //If the set was successful
                if (bSelectSet)
                {
                    bShowSelect = avDoc.ShowTextSelect();
                }
            }
            else
            {
                fileStatus.Text = "Adobe Acrobat document could not be loaded.";
            }
        }

The link is http://forums.adobe.com/thread/567307

Well i reached to the point here that i think using AVDoc , PDDoc - we cn copy the text... i m not sure... Plz help me it v urget

   Dim PDDoc As Object
        Dim AVDoc As Object
        Dim AcroExchApp As Object


        AcroExchApp = CreateObject("AcroExch.App")
        AVDoc = AcroExchApp.GetActiveDoc
        PDDoc = AVDocTarget.GetPDDoc

        If PDDoc.Save(PDSaveFull, "c:\test.pdf") = False Then
            MsgBox("Unable to save image")
        Else : MsgBox("The file is saved")
        End If

[macjone]

Hi all,

i am having 3 controls.
Button
AxAcroPDF1
Richtextbox

I select text from pdf file present in AxAcroPDF1 from mouse click, what ever i select immidiately it show be shown on the text on the Richtextbox

Have you ever thought using pdf text coordinate system to select text from pdf?

[Rebecca Matthew]

I searched internet and found the following thread that might help you to get Text from axAcroPDF control:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Fo...=csharpgeneral

I am currently using leadtools SDK to extract text from pdf documents using PDFDocument class. I found the following page that might help:
https://www.leadtools.com/help/leadt...arsepages.html