How to extract textbox text?

[jiezhoujenny]

Hi,
Is there any method that I can extract all the text in text box in a pdf file page? as attached picture shows (in red rectangle).
Thank you!

[JorjMcKie]

The method is page.getTextbox(rect).
But it seems in your example, some text pieces are not page text, but annotation or widget / field text. That text would of course not be included, because annotations (including fields / widgets) are not part of the page. You can imagine these like "dust" on a picture - can be wiped away without chaging the picture itself.

But you can still extract annotation / field contents, just with another set of methods:
You have to extract annot / field text separately, by first checking which fields / annotations are inside the given rect, and then extracting the text from them.

[JorjMcKie]

E.g. for annotations:

for annot in page.annots():
    if annot.rect not in rect:
        continue
    print(annot.getTextbox())

For fields, you can use the field value instead:

for field in page.widgets():
    if field.rect not in rect:
        continue
    print(field.field_value)

[jiezhoujenny]

Awesome! Thank you very much!