I've got the quadpoints by using pymupdf and inspecting the resulting document:

import fitz

doc = fitz.open("crazyones.pdf")
page = doc[0]

text_instances = page.search_for("crazy")

for inst in text_instances:
    highlight = page.add_highlight_annot(inst)
    highlight.set_colors({"stroke":(0, 0, 1), "fill":(0.75, 0.8, 0.95)})
    highlight.update()

doc.save("annotation.pdf")

@pubpub-zz How difficult would a PageObject.search_for(text) method be to implement that returns something containing the QuadPoints? Some people would be curious: https://stackoverflow.com/q/47497309/562769 :-)

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@pubpub-zz How difficult would a PageObject.search_for(text) method be to implement that returns something containing the QuadPoints? Some people would be curious: https://stackoverflow.com/q/47497309/562769 :-)

It will be part of the extension of extract_text... I raise it in the stack

the inprogress PR #1723 about set_color should also allow to change the color : definitively set_color() should be the good name