Search a text string to get location

Is there any way to search a text string in a PDF file or a page of PDF file to get the location of this text string, say (x, y, width, height)?
Thanks a lot for your help.

I believe that there is an Assembler command to find text in a document. I think it is DocumentText and you have an attribute called withQuads that will give you 4 points that surround the text that you are looking for.
I am going from memory so I would have a look at the DDX reference that comes with Assembler.

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Hi,
How to search specific text/string in pdf files from command prompt?
Will be great if you can refer to any adobe provided command base utility to achieve the above target.
Best Regards,

You can't. The commandline parameters for Acrobat and Adobe Reader do not allow any type of commands to be run.

I need to get the value of a text field that is located in another page JSP

I need to get the value of a text field that is located in another page JSP. How do I do that?

Well you see, I have a page at angelfire.com, which
does not support JSP. I want to call a script located
at mycgisever and then, when pressing a link on the
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I'm unable to understand your description clearly. Try to explain it better. Give precise steps that you intend to follow and I should be able to help you further.
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How to get numeric result from 'search and replace' string function

hii
i am using search and replace function to get output.my output is of form ' *X0123.3 ' .here i am replacing the term *X01 with space because i need only 23.3 as a result.but i am unable to get that out in the output indicator.i used lot of functions like string to number and so on but i am getting output as zero .can you please suggest me wt to do.i am attaching a copy of my file.
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Your problem is the fact that you are converting it to an integer, thus loosing the fractional part. You need to use "Fract/Exp String To Number" instead and create a DBL so yor data is 23.3 instead of 23.
You also don't need to manipulate the string if the initial part is of constant lenght. Just use the offset input as in the figure below.
Message Edited by altenbach on 07-31-2006 07:02 AM
LabVIEW Champion . Do more with less code and in less time .
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In iDS reports (10gR2), I want to search from top down for a text string was used in one of the queries or triggers. In Forms, you can do it, in reports the related menu item is always seems to be grayed out no matter what item I pick in the Navigator. Is it doable or not? If yes, then how. I don't wanna open each program piece including the queries in the data model, report triggers or program units and look for (by visual scanning) for the text I am searching for. This is crazy. There must be a way to do it. Thanx.

That is pretty bad for such an expensive report development program. The forms allows it, I wonder why Oracle did not include similar functionality in the reports developer. I knew the conversion to ascii, but during development it is pain in the ... just to search for a simple text string in the related program units in the report, to convert to ascii, do the search and then go back to the developer. Anyway, if that is the only way, there is nothing we can do I guess :(

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If I have a Radio Button List called radioButtonList1 with four text strings in radioButtonList1DefaultItems is there any way of accessing the individual strings to use in another method in the the java file?
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HTH
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How to search for particular string in array?

I am struggling to figure out how to search array contents for a string and then delete the entry from the array if it is found.
The code for a program that allows the user to enter up to 20 inventory items (tools) is posted below; I apologize in advance for it as I am also not having much success grasping the concept of OOP and I am certain it is does not conform although it all compiles.
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// ==========================================================
// Tool class
// Reads user input from keyboard and writes to text file a list of entered
// inventory items (tools)
// ==========================================================
import java.io.*;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
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private String name;
private double totalCost;
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// int record;
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      units = unitQty;
      price = costPrice;
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      String itemQty = "";
      String itemCost = "";
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} // class
// ==========================================================
// ListToolDetails class
// Reads a text file into an array and displays contents as an inventory list
// ==========================================================
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import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
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            System.out.println();
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         System.out.println("The file " + file + " was not found.");
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TOOL 1     1     1.21
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Ok, so you have an array of Strings. And if the string you are searching for is in the array, you need to remove it from the array.
Is that right?
Can you use an ArrayList<String> instead of a String[ ]?
To find it, you would just do:
for (String item : myArray){
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}Heck, with an arraylist you might be able to do the following:
arrayList.remove(arrayList.indexOf(searchString));[edit]
the above assumes you are using 1.5
uses generics and for each loop
[edit2]
and kinda won't work it you have to use an array since you will need the array index to be able to remove it. See the previous post for that, then set the value in that array index to null.
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BaltimoreJohn

Is there a function to Search a Text File?

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>
Jelena Perfiljeva wrote:
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>
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Bying this number of Adobe Acrobat licenses for just this purpose would be a heavy overkill which I just can't afford.
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If you use this XSLT, you should refine it to search for the string "TAX ID" at the beginning of the page rather than anywhere in the page. You should also improve the identification of the TAX ID number to be independent of the length.
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That's the way formulas work. The formula determines the content of the cell that contains the formula. You need to place the formula into every cell where you want to get that result.
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