>If this is for a specific PDF document (of known content) you could look at using IText. It's .NET source but you could wrap and expose to VFP as a COM object ?
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>I already looked at itextSharp and since this is a closed source vertical market application, the licensing costs are prohibitive.
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>Thanks!

itextsharp older versions can freely used in business applications.

There are several repositories which hold iTextSharp code before license was changed,
I'm using https://github.com/majorsilence/My-FyiReporting which contains this older version.