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PDF.js Express Version
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I’d like to be able to determine what row a string I was searching for with searchText was found in. I do get the Page Number and Quads from the result, but am not sure how translate the quads to a row (if that’s even a thing).

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Hi there,

While it isn’t possible to obtain a row from a quad, what you can do is create a bounding rectangle to represent the row of the selected word.

i.e.

const row = new Rect({x1: 0, y1: textQuad.y1, x2: pageWdith, y2: textQuad.y2})

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Where textQuad is the quad of the selected text.

Hopefully this is helpful,

Best Regards,
Zach Serviss
Web Development Support Engineer
PDFTron Systems, Inc.


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