1) Bookmarks in a PDF do NOT HAVE TO be associated with content – they can
refer to any Action as well.
2) Bookmarks that do point to content, normally only point to the START of the
content – there is no END.
3) UNLESS the PDF is tagged and structured properly, and the bookmarks are
connected to that structure. IN THAT ONE CASE, then you have the actual
content per bookmark.
Unfortunately, the number of PDFs that meet all three criteria is almost 0 :(.
Leonard
From: david guede <guede.da...@gmail.com<mailto:guede.da...@gmail.com>>
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Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 04:16:26 -0800
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Subject: [iText-questions] question about extracting text with itext
Hi everybody,
I have never used iText and need to manipulate contents from pdf files.
Basically, I have got one pdf file called sample.pdf
In this file, I have got some bookmarks (corresponding to the sections of my
file). This can be an example :
Sample.pdf
SAMPLE
1 Introduction
1.1 IntroductionPart1
blablablablablablablabla
1.2 IntroductionPart2
blibliblibliblibliblibliblibliblibliblibi
2 Section1
2.1 Section1Part1
blublublublublublublublbu
2.2 Section1Part2
blobloblobloblo
Of course this a very simplified example of the pdf file I need to work with...
My question is very simple, is there any way to extract the text for each
bookmark to .txt file ? For example, with my example, I would like to create 6
.txt file:
Introduction.txt
"1.1 IntroductionPart1
blablablablablablablabla
1.2 IntroductionPart2
blibliblibliblibliblibliblibliblibliblibi"
IntroductionPart1.txt
" blablablablablablablabla"
IntroductionPart2.txt
" blibliblibliblibliblibliblibliblibliblibi"
Section1.txt
" 2.1 Section1Part1
blublublublublublublublbu
2.2 Section1Part2
blobloblobloblo"
Section1Part1.txt
"blublublublublublublublbu"
Section1Part2.txt
"blobloblobloblo"
If so, could you please send me an example or tell me where I could find one...
Thanks in adavnce
David
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