Re: [iText-questions] iText and PDF/A metadata (Leonard Rosenthol)

2008-09-05 Thread Сергій Карпенко
Thanks a lot, Leonard I found PdfReader.getMetadata() It returns a byte array with XML. Off course, I can parse it (And I already done it). But getInfo() is much more useful - it returns a HashMap of properties. There is a reason make parsing on iText side. Becouse iText-deve

Re: [iText-questions] iText and PDF/A metadata

2008-09-05 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
It's not incompetency just incomplete knowledge of PDF.Since PDF 1.4 (Acrobat 5), Adobe has moved away from the classic "DocInfo" type of metadata to an XML-based metadata called XMP - though PDF/A was the first subset of PDF to REQUIRE XMP. So what you need to do is read up on XMP and

[iText-questions] iText and PDF/A metadata

2008-09-05 Thread Сергій Карпенко
Hi all I use iText for extract PDF text and PDF-file metadata. In last case code is simple PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(is,"".getBytes()); //Read the file metadata HashMap info = reader.getInfo(); reader.close(); String author = (String)info.get("Author");