Extracting informations about rectangles, lines, fields etc from PDF

I'm looking for a way, to extract rectangles, lines, fields etc from a PDF, for example think of a blue rectangle which is drawn in a Word document, which is later exported to pdf. I need informations about the position of the rectangle, the color, the size, if it is filled or not, etc. Is there something like an API or an SDK which can help me? I searched for quite a time (so please, no RTFM-answers), but the only references I found where about producing PDF or extracting text, images or graphics (oh, just at the moment, I had the idea, that lines and rectangles could be coded as vector-graphics in PDF, could that be possible?).
I'm thankful for all answers and ideas (even if you just post links with informations),
kind regards,
Pivo

Yes, lines and rects are coded as vector graphics (or specifically path drawing instructions) in a PDF.
Adobe offers an SDK around Adobe Acrobat which would enable you to get this information. If you need a standalone solution, we also offer our full PDFLibrary.

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