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Posted: **Tue May 23, 2017 2:53 pm**

Hello,

We're having an issue getting the text content of highlight annotations in PDF files. We're using javascript to parse the annotations and their properties. All other properties seem correct, i..e page, color and quads. But the contents and richContents properties are always empty, and we're not sure why. We're hoping you can help. This is the javascript we are using to log the annotation properties to console:

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var annots=this.getAnnots();
if(annots!=null){
	for(var i=0;i<annots.length;i++){
		var ann = annots[i];
		var p = ann.getProps();
			for ( o in p ) 
				console.println( o + " : " + p[o] );
	}
}

If it isn't possible to use the contents or richContents properties, is there another way to get the text of the highlight annotations? We've tried using

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getPageNthWord

with the quads, but it is not appearing to be very accurate.

Thanks,

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2017 6:43 am**

It is possible to get richContent from highlight annotation when there is text. But if there are no text you will have an empty array instead.

When you create new highlight annotation, highlighted text is not automatically copied as a content of the annotation.
The Editor has an option "Copy selected text into Highlight, Cross-Out, and Underline comment pop-ups" on Editor's preferences "Commenting" page.

HTH

Posted: **Mon Jun 12, 2017 3:56 pm**

Ivan - Tracker Software wrote:It is possible to get richContent from highlight annotation when there is text. But if there are no text you will have an empty array instead.

When you create new highlight annotation, highlighted text is not automatically copied as a content of the annotation.
The Editor has an option "Copy selected text into Highlight, Cross-Out, and Underline comment pop-ups" on Editor's preferences "Commenting" page.

HTH

OK, thanks for the reply.

Posted: **Tue Jun 13, 2017 9:46 am**

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