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I needed this last night when I was trying to edit some text in a PDF and I ended up having to use iText Rups to browse the tree.

Is there a way to view the stream content in ASCII/Unicode instead of Base64/Hex?

Thanks for the idea. I added this feature a few minutes ago [1]. I'm trying to convert stream content to UTF-8. Maybe later, I will add a more flexible solution to convert to other encodings.

1. https://imgur.com/a/69rbYMw

This works perfectly now on my test files. I can find the pages that have specific strings I was looking for.

This has saved me clogging up my PC by installing the Java runtime and iText RUPS.

My bad, I meant UTF-8. My brain had a relapse to 1988.

And, thank you!

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