Highlighted text

[Mano2731995]

Hai jorj

How to get and extract the highlighted text?

[JorjMcKie]

Assuming that the highlighting has happened via an annotation:

• loop over the annotations of the page (downselecting to appropriate annot type)
• take the annotation rectangle annot.rect and enlarge a little. This is recommended, because highlighting by many software packages create a too small annot rectangle to completely cover the complete text. So add an allowance like rect = annot.rect + (-5, -5, 5, 5) - which is 5 pixels large in every direction.
• Extract text like so text = page.get_text(clip=rect).

If highlighting has not happened via annotations, things are much more complicated, so let's hope you will get away with this recipe.

[Mano2731995]

Hai jorj

I have tried below code for extracting the highlighted text

Points= annot. rect
a= page.get_text(clip=points)

Expected result: need for only highlighted text

Actual result: Extracting highlighted text along with non highlighted text(pls refer image)

Pls suggest how to get only highlighted text

[JorjMcKie]

The annotation rectangle always is exactly this: a rectangle.
Your text overall however is two rectangles, each on its own line. You must use the annot.vertices property to determine those sub-areas.