Ok, I really feel stupid now. I've seen that reference before and tried to read in with image.get(PdfName.METADATA) and then cast it into any object that would allow me to see the content. Basicly I didn't understand that the object held a stream with the content and that I should use getAsStream/GetStreamBytes to retrieve it.
I've now been able to do what I wanted. Retrieve the images and separate them based on a attribute in their mata data. Thank you very much for you help! /Lukas ________________________________________ From: 1T3XT BVBA [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 21:41 To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Parsing PDF retrieving layers and images On 7/08/2011 18:01, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: >The stream in this example contains the following attributes: >{/Intent=/RelativeColorimetric, /Decode=[0.0, 255.0], /Type=/XObject, >/Subtype=/Image, /ColorSpace=22 0 R, /Name=/X, /BitsPerComponent=8, >/Width=314, >/Metadata=24 0 R, /Length=125, /Height=323, /Filter=/FlateDecode} > Grab the metadata and read it! Yes, combined with what you said in your initial mail, I think that's the solution to your problem. 24 0 R is a reference to object #24 in the PDF. It's a stream object that consists of XML. Use the getAsStream() method to retrieve a PRStream object; get the content using PdfReader's getStreamBytes() method. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php
