# How do I extract the paragraph position? the same way as we extract the positions in word documents.



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### Comment 1

Hi Praveen,

The most powerful way to extract a paragraph’s position and other data from a PDF document is the iText 7 add-on pdf2Data, which also has an online demo: https://pdf2data.online/
Maybe this Stack Overflow answer by iText’s Alexey Subach can help you: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55807256/how-can-i-get-the-position-of-the-specified-keyword-in-itext7

While pdf2data is the optimal approach, you can do basic extractions with iText 7 Core using a regular expression:

PdfDocument pdfDocument = new PdfDocument(new PdfReader(inputFile));

ILocationExtractionStrategy strategy = new RegexBasedLocationExtractionStrategy("regular expression");

PdfCanvasProcessor canvasProcessor = new PdfCanvasProcessor(strategy);

canvasProcessor.processPageContent(pdfDocument.getPage(1));

pdfDocument.close();

strategy.getResultantLocations(); // now contains all the locations of the matching text

If you want an answer for your specific case, then it is better to post a more detailed question on Stack Overflow pointing out what you have tried and where you are stuck. 
If you have a commercial license, you will also have access to iText customer support over Jira.

Kind regards,
Kenneth Holvoet
iText Software

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- Posted at: almost 5 years ago




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