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Marcus
Posted: Monday, July 9, 2012 9:25:31 AM
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If I have an existing PDF, can I extract certain data/text from this? All I can find when debugging is a PdfRawContent object.

Best regards
Marcus
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eo_support
Posted: Monday, July 9, 2012 10:05:49 AM
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Hi,

No. You can not do that. That is not even possible with some PDF files. PDF format is primarily an output format ---- it went to great length to describe how to "draw" each letter. But sometimes the file doesn't even contain information about what letter it is drawing (it contains information like "draw the 3rd glyph in font A", but it can occur that neither the PDF data nor the font data tells you what this 3rd glyph is).

Thanks!
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