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Stefan Ziegler commented on PDFBOX-5522:
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We process a lot of PDF files created by external programs. There are several
reasons for using an own COSWriter, e.g. for the following:
1) PDF files are not always completely correct and every now and then we have
to intervene to correct them. We can not change the external application.
2) Another point is a recompression of COSStreams. We often also process PDFs
that are not or not optimally compressed. We can then reprocess all streams,
determine the best compression and rewrite them.
3) A third point are extractions, e.g. we can extract all images, including
some hidden one that we can't access through the pages objects.
For all these things a custom COSWriter makes sense here. We also tried to use
COSDOcument#getObjectsByType( COSName type ) to retrieve a list of all objects
of a specific type, but this is not possible because when you load a PDF,
objects are not in the objectPool at this time and the returned list is empty.
> Add public void save(COSWriter writer) to PDDocument
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> Key: PDFBOX-5522
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5522
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: PDModel
> Affects Versions: 2.0.28, 3.0.0 PDFBox
> Reporter: Stefan Ziegler
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: PDDocument.java.patch
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> Please add the following method to PDDocument:
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> {code:java}
> public void save(COSWriter writer){code}
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> Why?
> This gives us the possibility to use a custom COSWriter when saving the PDF
> file. Inside the custom COSWriter we can add some checks and convert some
> data structures if required.
>
> Patch is attached.
>
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