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Extract X,Y coordinates from PDF using iText Jar

 
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Hi,
I want to extract x,y co-ordinates of particular field from PDF using iText jar.
Kindly do needful.
 
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You probably can't, not using iText. That's simply not a tool made for extracting layout information from a PDF. I'm not aware of an open source or free Java library you could use for this, but PDF-Renderer can display PDFs in Swing, so obviously it knows how to get at layout information.
 
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