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GetSelectedText Method

Summary

Selected text of a page or all pages in the document as a simple string object.

Syntax
C#
C++/CLI
public string GetSelectedText( 
   int pageNumber 
) 
public:  
   String^ GetSelectedText( 
      int pageNumber 
   ) 

Parameters

pageNumber

Page number to use. If this value is 0, then the text of all pages in the document will be used.

Return Value

The selected text of the page or the document as a simple string object, or an empty string if no selected text was found.

Remarks

If the text of the specified page(s) was not previously obtained, then the value of AutoGetText will be used to determine whether DocumentPage.GetText is called automatically. Therefore, this method might experience a delay while the text is parsed from the document in this mode.

Example
C#
using Leadtools; 
using Leadtools.Controls; 
using Leadtools.Document; 
using Leadtools.Document.Viewer; 
using Leadtools.Codecs; 
using Leadtools.Caching; 
using Leadtools.Annotations.Engine; 
using Leadtools.Ocr; 
 
 
var text = _documentViewer.Text; 
 
// First check if we have text for this page 
var pageNumber = _documentViewer.CurrentPageNumber; 
if (!text.HasDocumentPageText(pageNumber)) 
{ 
   // Get the text 
   text.GetDocumentPageText(pageNumber); 
 
   // Show it 
   var value = text.ExportText(pageNumber); 
   Console.WriteLine(value); 
} 
 
// Get the current document 
var document = _documentViewer.Document; 
// Get the page and the current view item 
var page = document.Pages[pageNumber - 1]; 
// Create a rectangle that is the first half of the page 
var bounds = LeadRectD.Create(0, 0, page.Size.Width, page.Size.Height / 2); 
// SelectText requires the rectangle to be in control pixel coordinates, so convert. First to pixels ... 
bounds = document.RectToPixels(bounds).ToLeadRectD(); 
// And then using the image viewer in the view to control. The item is the one at page number - 1 
var imageViewer = _documentViewer.View.ImageViewer; 
bounds = imageViewer.ConvertRect(imageViewer.Items[pageNumber - 1], ImageViewerCoordinateType.Image, ImageViewerCoordinateType.Control, bounds); 
// Select it, all lines 
text.SelectText(bounds.ToLeadRect(), DocumentViewerSelectTextMode.Line); 
 
// Now, check if we have any text selected 
if (text.HasSelectedText(pageNumber)) 
{ 
   // yes, show it 
   var value = text.GetSelectedText(pageNumber); 
   Console.WriteLine(value); 
} 
Requirements

Target Platforms

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