Extract PDF text by coordinates

Question

I\'d like to know if there\'s some PDF library in Microsoft .NET being able of extracting text by giving coordinates.

For example (in pseudo-code):

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Answer 1

iText's RegionTextRenderFilter is precisely what you're looking for.

So you want something like this (forgive my Java, but it should be trivial to translate):

PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(path);

FilteredTextExtractionStrategy regionFilter = 
  new FilteredTextExtractionStrategy( new SimpleTextExtrationStrategy, 
                                      new RegionTextRenderFilter( someRect ) );
String regionText = PdfTextExtractor.getTextFromPage(reader, 0, regionFilter );