Can I select a rectangle in pdf document, identify the bounds, and then retrieve the text with vba?

Question

I am using MS Access 2010 VBA and acrobat X, and AcroExchg.  I can manipulate and search pdf documents without difficulty.  I would like to programmatically capture the text in a rectangle that I have drawn on the document with a mouse.  It appears that If I can obtain the bounding rectangle that I could use AcroExchg.PDTextSelect to retrieve the text.  Is there a way to retrieve the coordinates of a mouse drawn rectangle in a pdf document.  In other words the equivalent of select, copy and later paste the text into another document?
Message was edited by: jgm835
I have reviewed posts from the adobe forum that indicate that obtaining the coordinates from a user drawn selection are not available through automation with AcroExch, but that function would be available .through a plug in.  Unless there is information to the contrary I will look to using menu commands in Acrobat

Answer 1

hi Bruce,
1. It sounds like what you need is to set the starting version number since your revision number increments in whole numbers, it would match up to SharePoint once the starting version number is set. You can potentially create a new custom field in the
library to manually track the version of the uploaded PDF document, but this might not match up with SharePoint's own version number and could get confusing. Another possibility is to upload dummy versions of the PDF document until the SP version
matches with the revision version and then delete these dummy versions.
2. When you upload the PDF document again into the library, it should prompt you to see if you want to replace the existing. If you proceed with the upload, it should replace and increment the SharePoint version number.
Please Mark Answered if my reply solves your problem. Thanks!
Jeff Thai
Technical Solutions Architect, AvePoint
http://www.AvePoint.com