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Android / Guides
There are two parts to text searching. First is the UI component that is presented to the user. Second is an API guide to perform the text search functionality.
To search for text in a PDF using regular expression and then apply a link annotation on the highlighted result.
PDFDoc doc = new PDFDoc(filename);
TextSearch txt_search = new TextSearch();
int mode = TextSearch.e_whole_word | TextSearch.e_page_stop;
String pattern = "";
//use regular expression to find credit card number
mode |= TextSearch.e_reg_expression | TextSearch.e_highlight;
txt_search.setMode(mode);
String new_pattern = "\\d{4}-\\d{4}-\\d{4}-\\d{4}"; //or "(\\d{4}-){3}\\d{4}"
txt_search.setPattern(new_pattern);
//call Begin() method to initialize the text search.
txt_search.begin(doc, pattern, mode, -1, -1);
TextSearchResult result = txt_search.run();
if (result.getCode() == TextSearchResult.e_found) {
//add a link annotation based on the location of the found instance
Highlights hlts = result.getHighlights();
hlts.begin(doc);
while (hlts.hasNext()) {
Page cur_page = doc.getPage(hlts.getCurrentPageNumber());
double[] q = hlts.getCurrentQuads();
int quad_count = q.length / 8;
for (int i = 0; i < quad_count; ++i) {
//assume each quad is an axis-aligned rectangle
int offset = 8 * i;
double x1 = Math.min(Math.min(Math.min(q[offset + 0], q[offset + 2]), q[offset + 4]), q[offset + 6]);
double x2 = Math.max(Math.max(Math.max(q[offset + 0], q[offset + 2]), q[offset + 4]), q[offset + 6]);
double y1 = Math.min(Math.min(Math.min(q[offset + 1], q[offset + 3]), q[offset + 5]), q[offset + 7]);
double y2 = Math.max(Math.max(Math.max(q[offset + 1], q[offset + 3]), q[offset + 5]), q[offset + 7]);
annots.Link hyper_link = annots.Link.create(doc, new Rect(x1, y1, x2, y2), Action.createURI(doc, "http://www.apryse.com"));
cur_page.annotPushBack(hyper_link);
}
hlts.next();
}
}
Search PDF files for text
Full code sample which shows how to use TextSearch to search text on PDF pages using regular expressions.
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