Three things:
1) Great Idea! 2) 'Probably should be proposed through a Jira 'new feature' issue. You can attach the files to the issue. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX 3) I would recommend it be proposed and implemented as a subclass of PDFTextStripper (i.e., something like "ObservablePDFTextStripper" instead of wired into that class directly. Almost all of PDFTextStripper can be overridden in a subclass so you should be able to fully instrument this in a subclass. There is a tiny but real performance hit for broadcasting events (even if you have no listeners) and it would be my preference that we do not introduce that overhead into the main PDFTextStripper class. Our group uses PDFTextStripper to process a large amount of documents so performance is important to us. Cheers, Mel From: Edson Alves Pereira [mailto:lottal...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 8:48 AM To: dev@pdfbox.apache.org Cc: Raul Abreu Leite Subject: Adding support to listener while parsing pdf to text - PDFTextStripper.java To help users get more interaction over the parsing processes.
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