Declaration

Delphi

function SearchText(SearchText, FontName: AnsiString; var res: TTextFinderResults): boolean;

ActiveX

HRESULT _stdcall SearchText([in] BSTR SearchText, [in] BSTR FontName, [out, retval] VARIANT * SearchResult );

Arguments

Argument	Description

Argument	Description
SearchString	The text you want to search for.
FontName	Not in use right now
SearchResult	Array of SearchText structure

Return value

This is an boolean value. True if Text is found in PDF Dokument.

Description

This function is used to search strings in a PDF document. Such a string can be useful as anchor to help setting the correct signature position, for example in a dynamic document, where the content is always different and so the position of the signature does not have fixed coordinates. The function also works well with "invisible" text (white text on white background) or very small text sizes.

The array, which you get back from the function, contains the coordinates of all positions, at which the search string was found in the document. The values are the coordinates of the top left and bottom right corners as well as the pagenumbers.

C# sample

SearchText Structure

//STRUCT

public struct SearchResult

{

public int XmlFieldIndex;

public int FieldType;

public int PageNumber;

public double Left;

public double Top;

public double Right;

public double Bottom;

}