Search PDF, extract pages, insert into new PDF with VB6

[tomh]

I have a PDF that contains 7 reports that I need to search for 3 reports. Once I find all pages associated with the 3 reports I need to print or insert them into a new PDF all using VB6.

Does the SDK have the appropriate tools to allow this?

Sorry if this is the wrong forum.

[Sasha - Tracker Dev Team]

Hello Tom,

Yes the Editor SDK allows to extract pages text and search through it, and also to extract and insert needed pages into new document.

Cheers,
Alex

[tomh]

Could you give me a little more info?

What do you use to accomplish it?

Are there examples of any of the pieces in VB6? Even .NET would be better than nothing.

[Sasha - Tracker Dev Team]

Hello Tom,

For better understanding, download our FullDemo project and also read this:
https://sdkhelp.pdf-xchange.com/view/PXV:CoClasses
This will give you an understanding of overall top level structure.

I) How to get text from page:
Assuming you've read the above topic, you have the IPXV_Control available.
1) This will get you a IPXV_Document https://sdkhelp.pdf-xchange.com/vie ... ocFromPath
2) Then you'll need to get a core IPXC_Document from it https://sdkhelp.pdf-xchange.com/vie ... ontrol_Doc
3) The IPXC_Document holds pages manager https://sdkhelp.pdf-xchange.com/vie ... ment_Pages
4) You can get a page by index using https://sdkhelp.pdf-xchange.com/vie ... Pages_Item
5) Having the IPXC_Page you can get the IPXC_PageText by using this method https://sdkhelp.pdf-xchange.com/vie ... ge_GetText
Now you basically have all of the characters on the page with their correspondent styles. Then you can get a text string from these characters and perform a search that you need.

II) How to insert pages into the document or extract them into new document:
Insert: https://sdkhelp.pdf-xchange.com/vie ... nsertPages
Extract: https://sdkhelp.pdf-xchange.com/vie ... tractPages

Cheers,
Alex