Highlight text in a PDF document viewer

Question

I have a WinForms application and am using AxAcroPDF COM component to display PDF files in my application. I want to highlight occurrences of some text in the PDF document using the AxAcroPDF component. Is there a way to do that?

Answer 1

Another alternative way is there, you may like to do all kind of text editing features using Foxit PDF Reader. It is now available for major platforms like linux, Windows and Mac.

Answer 2

Mendeley (https://www.mendeley.com/) does the work like a charm!

In fact, Mendeley is more than a PDF-reader. You can use it to organize your docs and references .

Answer 3

just since there are no answers here - according to Adobe's API there is a method SetCurrentHighlight, which hightlights text within the specified rectangle (I haven't tried this):

SetCurrentHighlight

Highlights the text selection within the specified bounding rectangle on the current page.

Syntax void setCurrentHighlight(LONG nLeft, LONG nTop, LONG nRight, LONG nBottom);