PDF Content Through the Viewer
Enable apps to extract user-selected text and regions directly from PDF documents, aligning retrieved data with visible on-screen interactions.
Extracting content using a PDF Viewer refers to enabling end users or applications to select and retrieve content directly through the viewer's user interface, based on interactive actions such as text selection, area selection, or page-level capture. For software developers, this means the viewer acts not only as a rendering surface but also as a controlled extraction layer that exposes selected text, images, or regions. This approach is valuable in review, approval, and data capture scenarios because it reflects explicit user intent, aligns extracted data with what is visibly selected on screen, and avoids reliance on background parsing alone, resulting in more predictable and user-driven content retrieval within applications.