DynaPDF - Extract text from specifical area

General
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I have to develope an application with Xojo and DynaPdf to extract text from pdf from a specifical area defined as page, x, y, width, height.
I’ve spent many hours to search a method in DynaPdf manual and in MonkeyBread DynaPdf examples folder but, although I have the feeling that there is the opportunity, I could not find it.
Is there someone that have previous experiences on this topic?
In the examples of MBSDynaPdf, there’s a project called “Text extraction.rbp”; should be a good starting point.
A small piece of sample code would be great!

Any suggestion is appreciated.
Thanks in advance

Pietro

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We have the Extract text.rbp example which also shows the coordinates of the text fragments found.
You could filter it and build your own text of the area you need.

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I studied the project “Extract text.rbp”; it return what was found on pdf and it’s coordinates.
What that I need it’s a little bit different.
My app will be monitor some folders and when some pdf arrives in it, I’ll have to search in an area proviously defined on a sample pdf. So my requirement is not to know what was found and in what position has been found; my requirement is to know what there is in a specifically area, which could also be empty-blank.

I hope to be able to explain.

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the example gets a list of things and you could filter the coordinates there to only take the text in the area.

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I will try as soon as possible as you suggested.

Thanks for your reply.