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TextExtractorGetAsXML Method

Get text content in a form of an XML string.

Namespace:  pdftron.PDF
Assembly:  pdftron (in pdftron.dll) Version: 255.255.255.255
Syntax
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public string GetAsXML()

Return Value

Type: String
The string containing XML output.
Remarks
XML output will be encoded in UTF-8 and will have the following structure:
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<Page num="1 crop_box="0, 0, 612, 792" media_box="0, 0, 612, 792" rotate="0">
<Flow id="1">
<Para id="1">
<Line box="72, 708.075, 467.895, 10.02" style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:10.02; color: #000000;">
<Word box="72, 708.075, 30.7614, 10.02">PDFNet</Word>
<Word box="106.188, 708.075, 15.9318, 10.02">SDK</Word>
<Word box="125.617, 708.075, 6.22242, 10.02">is</Word>
...
</Line>
</Para>
</Flow>
</Page>
The above XML output was generated by passing the following union of flags in the call to GetAsXML(): (TextExtractor::e_words_as_elements | TextExtractor::e_output_bbox | TextExtractor::e_output_style_info) In case 'xml_output_flags' was not specified, the default XML output would look as follows:
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<Page num="1 crop_box="0, 0, 612, 792" media_box="0, 0, 612, 792" rotate="0">
<Flow id="1">
<Para id="1">
<Line>PDFNet SDK is an amazingly comprehensive, high-quality PDF developer toolkit...</Line>
<Line>levels. Using the PDFNet PDF library, ...</Line>
...
</Para>
</Flow>
</Page>
</code>
</example>
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