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Search in whole pdf file
Last Updated 11 months ago
This article shows how to search a string in a whole pdf file.
With this method you can use a Document instance to search a word in a whole pdf file and store/menage results.
public void customSearch(Document doc, String search){ boolean caseSensitive = false; boolean wholeWord = false; for (int i = 0; i < doc.GetPageCount(); i++) { // get page Page page = doc.GetPage(i); page.ObjsStart(); // find in page Page.Finder finder = page.FindOpen(search, caseSensitive, wholeWord); // manage each search term contained in this page for (int c = 0; c < finder.GetCount(); c++) { // start position int firstCharPos = finder.GetFirstChar(c); Log.w("---search---", "Page " + i); Log.w("---search---", "Pos : " + firstCharPos); // do custom actions } // close page page.Close(); } }