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

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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
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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
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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
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Search PDF Files With Regular Expressions – Customizing Your…

With our update to the pdf search code we now route all our search functionality through the Java regular expressions engine. This has allowed...
Kieran France
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Hercule Poirot solves the mystery of the PDF file…

I had to debug an intriguing mystery to investigate this morning (while listening to Hercule Poirot naturally enough). It shows off some interesting features...
Mark Stephens
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