Example usage for org.apache.pdfbox.text PDFTextStripperByArea setSortByPosition

Introduction

In this page you can find the example usage for org.apache.pdfbox.text PDFTextStripperByArea setSortByPosition.

Prototype

public void setSortByPosition(boolean newSortByPosition) 

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Document

The order of the text tokens in a PDF file may not be in the same as they appear visually on the screen.

Usage

From source file:com.amolik.misc.ExtractTextByArea.java

License:Apache License

/**
 * This will print the documents text in a certain area.
 *
 * @param args The command line arguments.
 *
 * @throws IOException If there is an error parsing the document.
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public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    //args[0]= "E:\\Automation\\uphillit\\Fiscal_demo_data.pdf";
    //        if( args.length != 1 )
    //        {
    //            usage();
    //        }
    //        else
    //        {
    PDDocument document = null;
    try {
        document = PDDocument.load(new File("E:\\Automation\\uphillit\\Fiscal_demo_data.pdf"));
        int numberOfPages = document.getNumberOfPages();
        if (numberOfPages > 0) {

            PDPage page = (PDPage) document.getPages().get(0);
            System.out.println(page.getContents());
        }
        PDFTextStripperByArea stripper = new PDFTextStripperByArea();
        stripper.setSortByPosition(true);
        Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(3, 1, 600, 6000);
        stripper.addRegion("class1", rect);
        PDPage firstPage = document.getPage(0);
        stripper.extractRegions(firstPage);
        System.out.println("Text in the area:" + rect);
        System.out.println(stripper.getTextForRegion("class1"));
    } finally {
        if (document != null) {
            document.close();
        }
    }
    //       }
}

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From source file:com.enginkutuk.pdfboxsample.PDFBoxSample.java

public void readPdfFile(String path) {
    try {/*from  www  .j a v a  2s.c om*/
        PDDocument document = null;
        document = PDDocument.load(new File(path));
        document.getClass();
        if (!document.isEncrypted()) {
            PDFTextStripperByArea stripper = new PDFTextStripperByArea();
            stripper.setSortByPosition(true);
            PDFTextStripper Tstripper = new PDFTextStripper();
            String st = Tstripper.getText(document);
            System.out.println(st);
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, st);
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

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From source file:uk.ac.leeds.ccg.andyt.rdl.web.RDL_ParsePDF.java

/**
 * Converts PDF to a String a page at a time.
 *
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 * @return
 * @throws IOException
 */
public static String parseToString(File f) throws IOException {
    String result;
    result = "";
    PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load(f);
    PDFTextStripperByArea stripper = new PDFTextStripperByArea();
    stripper.setSortByPosition(true);
    //Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(10, 280, 275, 60);
    //PDPage firstPage = doc.getPage(0);
    for (PDPage page : doc.getPages()) {
        PDRectangle aPDRectangle;
        aPDRectangle = page.getBBox();
        Rectangle2D.Double rect = new Rectangle2D.Double(aPDRectangle.getLowerLeftX(),
                aPDRectangle.getLowerLeftY(),
                //aPDRectangle.getUpperRightY(),
                aPDRectangle.getWidth(), aPDRectangle.getHeight());
        stripper.addRegion("class1", rect);
        stripper.extractRegions(page);
        System.out.println("<Text in the area:" + rect + ">");
        String text;
        text = stripper.getTextForRegion("class1");
        System.out.println(text);
        System.out.println("</Text in the area:" + rect + ">");
        result += text;
    }
    return result;
}

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From source file:uk.org.openeyes.PDFFunctions.java

private String getTextArea(PDPage page, Rectangle titleArea) throws IOException {
    PDFTextStripperByArea stripper = new PDFTextStripperByArea();
    stripper.setSortByPosition(true);
    stripper.addRegion("area", titleArea);
    stripper.extractRegions(page);//w  ww.ja v  a 2 s .  c om
    return stripper.getTextForRegion("area");
}

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