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Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 19:39:38 +0800
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Subject: Re: How to find and replace text in pdf report
From: andrew lee <andrewlee2000@gmail.com>
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Hi Tilman;
My typo mistake, i mean PDFBox, not iText. However it will be great if
iText work as well. tq

regards;
andrew

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 7:38 PM, andrew lee <andrewlee2000@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Tilman;
> Thanks for the advice. If you notice my attached file, the Account Number:
> 0123456789 location will be fixed on every report.
> Does this mean PDFTextStripperByArea will be able to read it?
>
> What if the [First Name], [Last Name] & [Address] is an editable field.
> Will iText be able to fill them will information that I obtain from a
> database?
>
> Thanks;
> andrew
>
> On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Tilman Hausherr <THausherr@t-online.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> reading an area can be done with PDFTextStripperByArea, see in the source
>> code or in stackoverflow for examples. If you know where it is. If you
>> don't know where it is (e.g. invoice processing), then you'll have to guess
>> by the context.
>>
>> Writing at a placeholder is more difficult. Better don't create the
>> placeholder at all, just find out the coordinates and draw your text.
>>
>> https://pdfbox.apache.org/cookbook/documentcreation.html
>>
>> Tilman
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 04.10.2014 um 03:28 schrieb andrew lee:
>>
>>  Hi;
>>> I have a pdf report as per attached file. It contains the following text.
>>> Account Number: 0123456789
>>> [First Name]
>>> [Last Name]
>>> [Address]
>>>
>>> Using PDFBOX, can I read the Account Number value "0123456789" so that i
>>> can cross check with my oracle database, select out the First Name, Last
>>> Name and Address and finally fill it into the marker [First Name], [Last
>>> Name] & [Address] in the PDF file.  Btw i was told that i will be given an
>>> editable pdf report. also
>>>
>>>
>>> Kindly advice. tq
>>>
>>
>>
>

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