Bruno Lowagie (iText <bruno <at> lowagie.com> writes: > > Sameet Lal wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am using iText. I am creating a PDF file using PdfWriter. It works fine. > > Now I need to read the contents of above created file, for this I am > > using PdfReader, but it gives me lot of extra characters. > > I also bought your iText in Action online book and am not able to find > > any help as it gives only incomplete code. > > > > Can you please post me the code that I can use to read contents of the > > above pdf file without the extra characters? > > Have you read the last sentence of 3.2.1 on p80? > "In short, creating traditional PDF is a one-way process." > The long explanation can be found in section 18.2: > "Extracting and editing text" > > Based on the very limited information you are giving, > I have the impression you are retrieving the content stream > of a page containing the PDF operators and operands that > describe how the content has to be rendered. > > Of course, you're not telling us what extra characters > you are getting, so I'm not sure if the fact that you > mistake PDF for a Word processing format is really > your problem. > > br, > Bruno > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions <at> lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/ > >
ok, here' are the extra characters: q BT 36 806 Td 0 -18 Td /F1 12 Tf (template test)Tj ET Q I extract them using the following code segment: PdfReader pdfr = new PdfReader(fullFileName); int fileLen = pdfr.getFileLength(); HashMap hm = new HashMap(); hm = pdfr.getInfo(); int pages = pdfr.getNumberOfPages(); byte b [] = pdfr.getPageContent(1); String str = new String(b); return str; All I want is to read contents of PDF file i created using iText without junk characters and display them in web page. Please help. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
