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Full-text search

Retrieving text from documents isn’t always straightforward, but we make it easy for you.

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Text search, and text extraction, are two common tasks. Using an index allows a document to be searched quickly as the text extraction phase only needs to be completed once. This allows the search operation to be scaled up to allow searching of large sets of documents.

Test out full-text PDF search in your application using this code:

public void renderPage(int index) { PDFDoc doc = Common.loadPDFDoc(mContext, mPath, null); String outputFilePath = "test.jpg"; PDFPage pdfPage = Common.loadPage(mContext, doc, index, PDFPage.e_ParsePageNormal); // Create the bitmap and erase its background. Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap((int)pdfPage.getWidth(), (int)pdfPage.getHeight(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888); bitmap.eraseColor(Color.WHITE); Matrix2D matrix = pdfPage.getDisplayMatrix(0, 0, (int)pdfPage.getWidth(), (int)pdfPage.getHeight(), Constants.e_Rotation0); Renderer renderer = new Renderer(bitmap, true); // Render the page to bitmap. Progressive progressive = renderer.startRender(pdfPage, matrix, null); int state = Progressive.e_ToBeContinued; while (state == Progressive.e_ToBeContinued) { state = progressive.resume(); } progressive.delete(); if (state == Progressive.e_Error) { // Error return; } // Save the render result to the jpeg image if (false == Common.SaveImageFile(bitmap, Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, outputFilePath)) { // Failed to save return; } renderer.delete(); pdfPage.delete(); Common.releaseDoc(mContext, doc); } }
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GDPR allows your European customers to request all personally identifiable information you hold on them. How you would search all the information you hold on any given customer across all your documents, if you were to get a request like that? With Foxit PDF SDK, you can search, select and redact all instances of your customers’ information across all documents quickly and securely.

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