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sheetal.pawar

macrumors newbie
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Aug 12, 2010
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Hi,

I need to search a word in a PDF file. Currently I am getting only the page on which the word exists. But the exact location of the word is not known and hence cannot highlight the word.
Are there any PDF parsers available for MAC which can give the position of the word to be searched ?
Or any PDF parsers which will convert PDF file text in XML format on MAC ?
 
Did you check the PDF Kit docs?

Also, typically MAC refers to Media Access Control (as in MAC Address); Mac is the computer. It may seem pedantic, but using the proper spellings can greatly reduce confusion in some cases.
 
Also, typically MAC refers to Media Access Control (as in MAC Address); Mac is the computer. It may seem pedantic, but using the proper spellings can greatly reduce confusion in some cases.

All the letters in PC are capitalized, so some might think it should be the same for Macs. As though it were some sort of Macronym.
 
Thanks for the reply and sorry for the confusion. I meant Mac OS.

At times the PDF text is encoded in some format. Will this search decode the text also ?
In the PDF kit doc nothing is mentioned on the decoding part.
 
All the letters in PC are capitalized, so some might think it should be the same for Macs. As though it were some sort of Macronym.

What do you mean? Everybody knows MAC stands for "Mouse Activated Computer". ;)
 
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