Read PDF Elements

Reads the PDF elements.

This activity reads the elements of the given PDF.

Input

• Input: Object Argument Required The full path of the filename is to be read.

• Selector: Required To display PDF Viewer by clicking on the button at the right end of the property field.

PDF Viewer

The PDF viewer has two sections . The Document section which displays the content of the pdf document that was given as input and the Annotations section that displays the content selected and the name of the annotation selected. To select a specific text click and drag to form a rectangle around the content that is to be extracted from the given PDF document that is displayed in the Document section of the viewer.

Selecting a content in the PDF viewer

After the selection on the Document section a New Annotation window pops up with the extracted content from the PDF and space for inputting the name of the newly created annotation.

New Annotation

After inputting the annotation name and clicking the Save button the annotation is saved and is displayed in the Annotations section of the PDF viewer.

The user can view the annotations created even after closing the viewer by reopening the viewer and the Annotation section will contain all the annotations created so far.

Output

• Result:List Variable Stores the elements read from the PDF as a list of annotations.