Hi Kevin,
On 28.05.2013 17:28, Kevin Day wrote:
> Sorry, but there's no way that we can break encapsulation by exposing that
> field.
As I said you can still preserve the encapsulation by providing a
protected getter:
protected StringBuffer getStringBuffer() {
return result;
}
However I don't see much sense in it, as result is declared as final.
Or you don't use "protected" in whole project at all?
Alternative is this operation:
protected void appendText(String s) {
result.append(s);
}
but it's not very flexible. My opinion is: by hiding too much in the
class you are limiting the ways it can be customized and used. Usually
it ends with code duplication (copy-paste) across projects.
> I'm not following your logic about why you need access to the underlying
> StringBuffer - it would seem that using composition would be more
> appropriate. Go ahead and lay out the algorithm you are thinking about
> using and I'll see if I can make some suggestions.
The class that I am implementing looks like following:
@Component
public class ImageAndTextTextExtractionStrategy extends
SimpleTextExtractionStrategy {
@Autowired
private OcrService ocrService;
@Override
pubic void renderImage(ImageRenderInfo renderInfo) {
result.append(
ocrService.ocrImage(
renderInfo.getImage().getBufferedImage()));
}
}
> I'll also mention that SimpleTextExtractionStrategy is really, really
> simple. It was intended to provide a very simple example of how one might
> write their own extraction strategy.
It fit's my needs. Text flow in my case is always from top to bottom.
However sometimes the *whole page* is an image that needs to be OCR'ed.
No post-layouting is needed.
--
With best regards,
Dmitry
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