title: Undocumented windows built-in PDF renderer capabilities?
body: <p>Using the <code>Windows.Data.Pdf</code> namespace, i am able to render pdf (as an image) without using any third party library.</p>
  
  <p><strong>If im not mistaken</strong>, Microsoft's Edge browser uses the same library to render pdfs (Windows.Data.Pdf.dll). By looking at the official <code>Windows.Data.Pdf</code> documentation <a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.data.pdf">here</a> i can see it's only about </p>
  
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    <p><em>converting a page in a Portable Document Format (PDF) document to an <strong>image</strong> file.</em></p>
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  <p>but, Edge browser has "search text" capability when rendering a pdf, which i cannot find anywhere in the <code>Windows.Data.Pdf</code> library.</p>
  
  <p>My question is, is there any undocumented (hence unofficial) capabilities available to use in the <code>Windows.Data.Pdf</code> namespace (or somewhere else built-in in windows)? (Specifically, the search text function, which i assume i must be able to a) extract the text of pdf so i can search on it, and b) get the XY of the string occurence on the rendered page so i can highlight it somehow) </p>