Hello, I'd like to find some specific words in a PDF and draw a rectangle over these words. I'm using PDFBox 3.0.1
I found this to locate the words : https://github.com/mkl-public/testarea-pdfbox2/blob/master/src/test/java/mkl/testarea/pdfbox2/extract/ExtractWordCoordinates.java As you can see in the println, : System.out.println(builder.toString() + " [(X=" + boundingBox.getX() + ",Y=" + boundingBox.getY() + ") height=" + boundingBox.getHeight() + " width=" + boundingBox.getWidth() + "]"); I get : MYSTRING [(X=29.862407684326172,Y=383.78765869140625) height=7.098414897918701 width=50.3477668762207 ] in my prototype I print this information and copy and past x, y, height, width into a block of code hardcoded PDPage page = document.getPage(0); PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page, PDPageContentStream.AppendMode.APPEND, false); contentStream.setNonStrokingColor(Color.RED); contentStream.addRect(29.862407684326172f, 383.78765869140625f, 50.3477668762207, 7.098414897918701f); contentStream.fill(); contentStream.close(); document.save(new FileOutputStream(src_file_path.replace(".pdf", "-rect.pdf"))); But it does not match the text on the PDF. I tried to replace the height by the font size but it was not really better. Where is my mistake ? Best regards, Fred
