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How to Get Coordinates of Desired Text in PDF in C#, VB.NET

Spire.PDF provides an easy and straightforward method called FindText to find a particular text in a page of a PDF document. After the specified text is found, we’re able to acquire the coordinate information by the Position property. Follow sections presents how to get coordinates of desired text in PDF using Spire.PDF.

Code Snippets:

Step 1: Initialize an instance of PdfDocument class and load a sample PDF file.

PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument();
doc.LoadFromFile(@"sample.pdf");

Step 2: Declare a variable of an array whose array type is PdfTextFind class, which represents a result of searching text in a PDF page.

PdfTextFind[] results = null;

Step 3: Find all results of searched text “Spire.PDF” in the PDF document and store the results in PdfTextFind[]. Traversal the results to get the specified text and acquire its coordinate information by the Position property.

foreach (PdfPageBase page in doc.Pages)
{
    results = page.FindText("Spire.PDF").Finds;
    foreach (PdfTextFind text in results)
    {
        PointF p = text.Position;
        Console.WriteLine(p);
    }
}

Result:

How to Get Coordinates of Desired Text in PDF in C#, VB.NET

Full Code:

[C#]
PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument();
doc.LoadFromFile(@"sample.pdf");

PdfTextFind[] results = null;
foreach (PdfPageBase page in doc.Pages)
{
    results = page.FindText("C#").Finds;
    foreach (PdfTextFind text in results)
    {
        PointF p = text.Position;
        Console.WriteLine(p);
    }
}
[VB.NET]
Dim doc As PdfDocument = New PdfDocument()
doc.LoadFromFile("sample.pdf")
 
Dim results() As PdfTextFind = Nothing
Dim page As PdfPageBase
For Each page In doc.Pages
    results = page.FindText("C#").Finds
    Dim text As PdfTextFind
    For Each text In results
        Dim p As PointF =  text.Position
        Console.WriteLine(p)
    Next
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