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

This code will work in itext 7

PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("D:/Sample2.pdf");
PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(reader);
Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(208, 508, 235, 519);
TextRegionEventFilter regionFilter = new 
TextRegionEventFilter(rect.SetBbox(208, 508, 235, 519));
ITextExtractionStrategy strategy = new SimpleTextExtractionStrategy();
FilteredEventListener listener = new FilteredEventListener();
LocationTextExtractionStrategy extractionStrategy = listener.AttachEventListener(new LocationTextExtractionStrategy(), regionFilter);
new PdfCanvasProcessor(listener).ProcessPageContent(pdfDoc.GetPage(1));
String text = extractionStrategy.GetResultantText();