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How to get the Highlighted annotation text

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2007-10-03 04:50:41
eswer_engg
Registered: Sep 26 2007
Posts: 8

How to get the Highlighted annotation text from the pdf using javaScript

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 7.0.0, Windows
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2007-10-10 09:46:40
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thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
You have to search the pdf page for words that fall into the bounding box of the annotation. Use these functions.

doc.getPageNthWord()
doc.getPageNthWordQuads()

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2008-06-11 23:56:43
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venkatesh_ur
Registered: Jun 11 2008
Posts: 5
Thomp -

I am using the exact thing what u had mentioned above to get the word and quardinates. But i dont know how to proceed further to highlight the acquired quardinates.

Can you give me a sample?
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