Hi,
Am 06.02.2014 00:39, schrieb John Hewson:
PDFBox depends on AWT for handling fonts and graphics. Unfortunately Android
does not support AWT and there is currently no suitable replacement.
However, for text extraction it seems likely that you only need a subset of
PDFBox which doesn't require AWT. You could try removing all code not used by
PDFToText and see if you can build a minimal PDFBox which doesn't depend on
AWT. If you succeed we can add an Android configuration to the Maven build.
There are already some discussions/plans to modularize PDFBox so that it would
be possible to choose a reduced subset of PDFBox (with less/no AWT dependencies)
to be used on android to extract text and similar things.
-- John
BR
Andreas Lehmkühler
On 4 Feb 2014, at 15:29, Sharda <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello all,
I am trying to extract the text from a PDF for annotation purposes
(highlight, strikeout and underline). Some posts in stackoverflow posted in
2012, says that android and pdfbox are not compatible with each other.
Thus, I wanted to know if this is still an issue or its solved by now?
thanks and regards,
--
Shobhit Sharda
MSc in SSE
RWTH Aachen University
Aachen
Germany
blog: http://shobhitsharda.wordpress.com
