The PDF Viewer library allows you to extract the text from a page along with the bounds. Text extraction can be done using the isExtractText property and extractTextCompleted event.
The following steps are used to extract the text from the page.
Step 1: Follow the steps provided in the link to create a simple PDF Viewer sample.
Step 2: The following code snippet explains how to extract the text from a page .
<template>
<ejs-pdfviewer
id="pdfViewer"
:serviceUrl="serviceUrl"
:documentPath="documentPath"
:isExtractText="true"
:extractTextCompleted="extractTextCompleted">
</ejs-pdfviewer>
</template>
<script>
import Vue from 'vue';
import { PdfViewerPlugin, Toolbar, Magnification, Navigation, LinkAnnotation, BookmarkView,
ThumbnailView, Print, TextSelection, TextSearch, Annotation, FormDesigner, FormFields} from '@syncfusion/ej2-vue-pdfviewer';
Vue.use(PdfViewerPlugin);
export default {
data () {
return {
serviceUrl:"https://ej2services.syncfusion.com/production/web-services/api/pdfviewer",
documentPath:"PDF_Succinctly.pdf",
extractTextCompleted: function (args) {
// Extract the Complete text of load document
console.log(args);
console.log(args.documentTextCollection[1]);
// Extract the Text data.
console.log(args.documentTextCollection[1][1].TextData);
// Extract Text in the Page.
console.log(args.documentTextCollection[1][1].PageText);
// Extracts the first text of the PDF document along with its bounds
console.log(args.documentTextCollection[1][1].TextData[0].Bounds);
}
};
},
provide: {
PdfViewer: [Toolbar, Magnification, Navigation, LinkAnnotation, BookmarkView,
ThumbnailView, Print, TextSelection, TextSearch,Annotation, FormDesigner, FormFields]}
}
</script>Find the Sample, how to Extract Text