Property Rectangle

Namespace

BitMiracle.Docotic.Pdf

Assembly

BitMiracle.Docotic.Pdf.dll

Rectangle

Gets or sets the rectangle of interest.

public PdfRectangle? Rectangle { get; set; }

Property Value

PdfRectangle?

The rectangle to extract the text from or null if all the text should be extracted.

Remarks

Default value: null.

If the rectangle is null AND the SkipInvisibleText is false then the library will extract all available text.

If the rectangle is null AND the SkipInvisibleText is true then the library will only extract visible text inside the intersection of page CropBox and MediaBox.

If the rectangle is not null AND the SkipInvisibleText is false then the library will only extract text intersecting the specified rectangle. Any part of a word which is outside of the rectangle will be extracted too.

If the rectangle is not null AND the SkipInvisibleText is true then the library will only extract visible text inside the specified rectangle. Any part of a word which is outside of the rectangle will be truncated. Characters that are partially inside the rectangle (partially visible) will be extracted.

Read the Extract text from PDF in C# and VB.NET article to know how to extract text from PDF documents.