Text refers to the font/ text and/or is styled with some of the text formatting properties.

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Understanding the PDF File Format

We have been working with PDF files since 1999 and developed complex software to display PDF files. We have learnt a lot about the...
Leon Atherton
3 min read

Tutorial : How To Copy Text in JavaFX and…

At IDRSolutions we have a PDF Viewer that has the ability to highlight and copy text, because we are developing a JavaFX implementation of our PDF Viewer we required...
Nathan Howard
1 min read

How do Browsers auto reverse the Right to left…

You might have encountered a situation where you tried to read from pdf or other text input streams and writing the raw data into...
suda
1 min read

How to extract Structured text from PDF files

What is Structured text? When Adobe created the PDF file format it was designed as an end file format, not one for editing and...
Mark Stephens
1 min read

What does the ActualText dictionary tag do?

Text is defined in the PDF file format as a display value (normally what you see onscreen) and an extraction value. It is useful...
Mark Stephens
29 sec read