Eoin Hinchy wrote: > Hi guys, > > I was wondering if it's possible to use iText to read in a PDF and > replace all the whitespace in it with spaces/tabs/newlines. > For example: > Read in the file http://www.plainsight.info/dev/example.pdf > and output something along the lines of: > http://www.plainsight.info/dev/desired.txt > > I've been looking through the itext forums/mail lists for the answer > to my question but I couldn't find it. > Is it even possible?
A week ago, I'd have said: no, that's not possible. Then Kevin Day contributed code to parse PDF content (it will be in the next release). You can't achieve what you want with his code yet, but... depending on the way the PDF is made (internally; depending on the organization of the PDF syntax), you could write an implementation of the PdfContentStreamProcessor that gets close to what you need. -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php
