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Use the setExtractText() method of the ViewInfoOptions class to get the text contained in a source document and its coordinates. Then you can use this data to add a selectable text over the image or to implement a text search in image-based rendering.

The following code snippet shows how to retrieve and print out text (lines/words/characters) on each document page with coordinates:

Java

import com.groupdocs.viewer.Viewer;
import com.groupdocs.viewer.options.ViewInfoOptions;
import com.groupdocs.viewer.results.Character;
import com.groupdocs.viewer.results.Line;
import com.groupdocs.viewer.results.Page;
import com.groupdocs.viewer.results.ViewInfo;
import com.groupdocs.viewer.results.Word;
// ...

try (Viewer viewer = new Viewer("sample.docx")) {
    ViewInfoOptions viewInfoOptions = ViewInfoOptions.forPngView(true);
    ViewInfo viewInfo = viewer.getViewInfo(viewInfoOptions);

    for (Page page : viewInfo.getPages()) {
        System.out.println("Page: " + page.getNumber());
        System.out.println("Text lines/words/characters:");

        for (Line line : page.getLines()) {
            System.out.println(line);
            for (Word word : line.getWords()) {
                System.out.println("\t" + word);
                for (Character character : word.getCharacters()) {
                    System.out.println("\t\t" + character);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

The following image shows a sample console output:

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