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

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PDF Text extraction – Why can I not extract…

Every so often people send us files and ask why we cannot extract the text from them – I mean we can view the...
Mark Stephens
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How to find out if a PDF file has…

Because it turned out that people wanted to make PDF files accessible and extract content from PDF documents (and not just view them), Adobe...
Mark Stephens
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Why PDF to HTML conversion does not work very…

When people convert PDF files into HTML files, they tend to be disappointed with the results. The main reason for this tends to be...
Mark Stephens
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PDF mystery – what is the correct value for…

I came across an interesting issue with PDF Text fields while debugging a file this week. We were sent a 2 page document created...
Chris Wade
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Understanding PDF text objects

Understanding PDF Text Objects Inside a PDF is a Postscript stream of commands which describe the page – they draw the text, images or...
Mark Stephens
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