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Opening PDF file in VB6 Form
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Hi,
How can i open a PDF file in Form instead of using a shell to open it?
Also i want to select some text in the opened PDF file and store it in a variable.
Thank you.
How can i open a PDF file in Form instead of using a shell to open it?
Also i want to select some text in the opened PDF file and store it in a variable.
Thank you.
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Originally Posted by RahulV 
Hi,
How can i open a PDF file in Form instead of using a shell to open it?
Also i want to select some text in the opened PDF file and store it in a variable.
Thank you.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/...JavaScript.pdf
www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/AcroJS.pdf
Last edited by SlyMaelstrom; Mar 6th, 2009 at 5:22 pm.
Probably the easiest way to do what you want is to use a Browser control on your form and open the PDF file in the browser - Browser1.Navigate PDFFile$ - works like a charm and you're not tied to a particular version of Acrobat Reader.
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Originally Posted by SCBWV
Probably the easiest way to do what you want is to use a Browser control on your form and open the PDF file in the browser - Browser1.Navigate PDFFile$ - works like a charm and you're not tied to a particular version of Acrobat Reader.
To the OP, another point I forgot to make. Text in a PDF might not be text at all. It can also be an image, while Adobe Professional does have OCR recognition, it is not made available by them in their API. You can however extract the image and use an OCR that Office gives you in their library references. I forgot the name of it, but it should be easy enough to Google.
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Originally Posted by SCBWV
Probably the easiest way to do what you want is to use a Browser control on your form and open the PDF file in the browser - Browser1.Navigate PDFFile$ - works like a charm and you're not tied to a particular version of Acrobat Reader.
But still im not able to put it in a variable or access the text via code.
You know how to do that?
Last edited by RahulV; Mar 8th, 2009 at 8:57 am.
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Originally Posted by RahulV
You know how to do that?
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