Hello, I am investigating possible solutions to a task I have been assigned and have been looking at alternatives. I have been playing with some of the pdfbox examples. Perhaps I could provide a high level synopsis and someone can tell me if pdfbox could be the proper solution.
At a high level I need to create a Table of Contents PDF of product documentation that would provide a link/anchor to the pdf documents on the cd/dvd. What I have in mind is to extract the title/subject from the first page of each document to place in the TOC pdf as a hot link to the document. The solution needs to keep the language and font metrics intact for the TOC, this would need to support any language and fonts in the existing product pdf. I have looked at the ExtractTextBArea example but I am not sure the fonts and language metrics are available for replication. It seems to work fine for ASCII and extended ASCII characters but others like Chinese(Simple), Korean, and Japanese are shown as "?????". I have also investigated the PDFPagePanel example and have a question as to why it will only process annotations in the loaded document, which in my pdf's there are none. I would very much appreciate any input before I invest too much more time in the feasibility phase of this project. Thank you in advance and best regards, Jim Whelan eCare, HAM, MServer, and Media Teams Dept: GJZA, ISC Manufacturing Support Poughkeepsie, New York
