PdfTextExtractor.java

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package com.lowagie.text.pdf.parser;

import java.io.IOException;

import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfDictionary;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfName;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.RandomAccessFileOrArray;

/**
 * Extracts text from a PDF file.
 * @since	2.1.4
 */
public class PdfTextExtractor {

	/** The PdfReader that holds the PDF file. */
    private final PdfReader reader;
    /** The processor that will extract the text. */
    private final SimpleTextExtractingPdfContentStreamProcessor extractionProcessor;
    
    /**
     * Creates a new Text Extractor object.
     * @param reader	the reader with the PDF
     */
    public PdfTextExtractor(PdfReader reader) {
        this.reader = reader;
        extractionProcessor = new SimpleTextExtractingPdfContentStreamProcessor();
    }

    /**
     * Gets the content stream of a page.
     * @param pageNum	the page number of page you want get the content stream from
     * @return	a byte array with the content stream of a page
     * @throws IOException
     */
    private byte[] getContentBytesForPage(int pageNum) throws IOException {
        RandomAccessFileOrArray f = reader.getSafeFile();
        byte[] contentBytes = reader.getPageContent(pageNum, f);
        f.close();
        return contentBytes;
    }
    
    /**
     * Gets the text from a page.
     * @param page	the page number of the page
     * @return	a String with the content as plain text (without PDF syntax)
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public String getTextFromPage(int page) throws IOException {
        PdfDictionary pageDic = reader.getPageN(page);
        PdfDictionary resourcesDic = pageDic.getAsDict(PdfName.RESOURCES);
        extractionProcessor.processContent(getContentBytesForPage(page), resourcesDic);        
        return extractionProcessor.getResultantText();
    }
}