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# ParagraphLines Object (IParagraphLines Interface)

This object represents a collection of paragraph lines. It contains methods for getting the number of paragraph lines in collection, accessing a single element of this collection and iterating through the elements of the collection. The collection is accessible via the [Paragraph](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/paragraph) object.

* The indexing of ABBYY FineReader Engine collections starts with 0.
* The foreach statement in C# (for each in Visual Basic .NET) can be used to manipulate the collection.

## Properties

| Name                                                                                                                  | Type                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | Description                                            |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| Application                                                                                                           | [Engine](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/engine-object-iengine-interface), [read-only](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties#readonly_properties)           | Returns the Engine object.                             |
| Count                                                                                                                 | [int](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties), read-only                                                                                                       | Stores the number of elements in the collection.       |
| [Element](/fine-reader/engine/visual-components-reference/supplementary-objects/spellwordcollection/element-property) | [ParagraphLine](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/paragraphline), [read-only](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties#readonly_properties) | Provides access to a single element of the collection. |

## Methods

| Name                                                                                                          | Description                                            |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| [Item](/fine-reader/engine/visual-components-reference/supplementary-objects/spellwordcollection/item-method) | Provides access to a single element of the collection. |

## Related objects

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/abbyy/i-EfCQVmseNiPQcp/images/fine-reader/engine/paragraphlines.gif?s=1be2c35349303d0deea68e9bf2321b0f" alt="ParagraphLines" width="151" height="93" data-path="images/fine-reader/engine/paragraphlines.gif" />[](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/paragraphline)[](/fine-reader/engine/visual-components-reference/supplementary-objects/spellwordcollection/element-property)[](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/paragraph)

[Object Diagram](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/object-diagram)

## See also

[Paragraph](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/paragraph)

[ParagraphLine](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/paragraphline)

[Working with Text](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/working-with-text)

[Working with Collections](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-collections)

[Working with Properties](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties)