I think the only approach now is to run the document through an OCR applica= tion, so that the resulting text will simply be a part of the text layer. I= t makes me wonder if there is a way to make an OCR external...
Bob S > On Mar 21, 2025, at 8:05 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com> wr= ote: >=20 > Thanks Paul, that is very helpful. You are correct of course, I cannot se= lect the form data. Very unfortunate. I already have a request in to see if= XPDF can be made to do so. I seem to remember however that XPDF was done b= y another developer and cannot be modified. I could be mistaken though. How= unfortunate, and short sighted though. The one thing someone would want fr= om a form is not the form but the data it contained.=20 >=20 > Bob S >=20 >=20 >> On Mar 21, 2025, at 6:56 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <use-livecode@= lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>=20 >> To put XPDF in selection more, use >>=20 >> XPDFViewer_ChooseMouseMode "Document1",pMode -- "browse", "selection", "= image" >>=20 >> To select a range of text on (or across) page(s), use >>=20 >> XPDFViewer_Select "Document1",item 1 of tPDFPageRef,item 2 of tPDFPageRe= f,item 3 of tPDFPageRef,item 4 of tPDFPageRef >>=20 >> See the documentation for what the 4 items are above, but it's basically= startPageNum, startCharPositionNum, endPageNum, endCharPositionNum >>=20 >> However, XPDF was not designed to get the values of form fields. Unless = something was added by Monte in the intervening years since Researchware tu= rned the XPDF external over to Livecode, I don't think there is a way to ge= t form data. >>=20 >> In any case, Monte at livecode is the definitive expert who could answer= this questions for the XPDF external and the PDF Widget (if they added for= ms capability to that newer effort). >>=20 >>=20 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
