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Tilman Hausherr commented on PDFBOX-3177:
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Why not overwrite writeString instead?
{code}
protected void writeString(String text, List<TextPosition> textPositions)
throws IOException
{code}
> Change some modifiers from private to protected in PDFTextStripper Class
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> Key: PDFBOX-3177
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3177
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Text extraction
> Affects Versions: 1.8.10
> Environment: All
> Reporter: Praveer
> Fix For: 1.8.10
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>
> Hi,
> I am parsing a very complicated PDF for which text extraction is not in
> proper sequence, so I had to enable setSortByPosition = True.
> Now I want to access each TextPosition element and do some processing with
> them, normally i would override processTextPosition method and do my stuff
> there, But since I have enabled setSortByPosition, the code that sorts before
> extracting text is invoked after processTextPosition, so I can not override
> processTextPosition to get text according to their position.
> I did some research and found that overriding writeLine method of
> PDFTextStripper can be useful for me
> because it processes each TextPosition after they are sorted according to
> their position.
> So I have done a POC in my personal computer by doing following changes in
> PDFTextStripper class
> 1 - 'private' void writeLine() changed to 'protected'
> 2 - 'private' static final class WordWithTextPositions changed to
> 'protected'
> After this everything works as per my expectation, I think these changes are
> also going to help other people who use this library.
> I can contribute this code myself, if you suggest, let me know, thanks and
> regards
> Praveer
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