Text_GetText() - Missing Method?

[JesseH]

Hi. I'm trying to use the method documented here:
https://sdkhelp.pdf-xchange.com/vie ... xt_GetText

I'm using C# and Visual Studio doesn't recognize it as a method. The code I'm currently working needs to analyze the text from hundreds of documents and be able to identify errors in the content (based on a ruleset read from xml), and doing so requires being able to access the text based on the location on the page.

[Sasha - Tracker Dev Team]

Hello Jesse,

Strange, I've tried doing this - everything worked fine:

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PDFXEdit.IPXC_Content content = pdfCtl.Doc.CoreDoc.Pages[0].GetContent(PDFXEdit.PXC_ContentAccessMode.CAccessMode_Readonly);
string str;
for (uint i = 0; i < content.Items.Count; i++)
{
	PDFXEdit.IPXC_ContentItem ci = content.Items[i];
	//For example we will take all of the text items
	if (ci.Type == PDFXEdit.PXC_CIType.CIT_Text)
	{
		str = ci.Text_GetText();
	}
}

Cheers,
Alex

[JesseH]

Change the variable names, add some logging, and you pretty much have the same code I'm working with. The method doesn't appear in the object browser.

I'm using CoreAPI SDK, does this method require Editor SDK?

[Sasha - Tracker Dev Team]

Hello JesseH,

Nope, this should be the Core API method. I will double check that and will write you back.

Cheers,
Alex

[JesseH]

In the meantime, I've written a workaround that seems to work:

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static public string GetContentText(IPXC_ContentItem pSrcContent)
        {
            StringBuilder sRet = new StringBuilder(); ;
            Array oByteBuffer;

            pSrcContent.Text_GetDataSA(out oByteBuffer);
            var oByteList = oByteBuffer.OfType<byte>().ToList();

            for (int i = 0; i < oByteList.Count(); i++)
            {
                sRet.Append((char)oByteList[i]);
            }

            return sRet.ToString();
        }

[Sasha - Tracker Dev Team]

Hello JesseH,

I've investigated the issue - this and some other methods, that will be available from the next release, were already uploaded into our wiki.

Cheers,
Alex

[JesseH]

Ok. Thanks for looking into it.

[Sasha - Tracker Dev Team]