Hello, I need to do string replacement in a certain region of a pdf page. The different pieces of the puzzle to do this are present in pdfbox: - org.apache.pdfbox.examples.pdmodel.ReplaceString - org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripperByArea
I am confident this can be done, but I am struggling to do it in an elegant way (to optimize reuse of existing classes). The first thing I had to do for a replacement is accessing the COSString. This can be done by creating a variant of org.apache.pdfbox.util.operator.ShowText. The second thing to do is writing the changed tokens to the page stream, but I can not access them: the token iterator is in processSubStream of PDFStreamEngine. Overriding this method is not an option because it uses private attributes (without getter). Then I started creating my own version of PDFStreamEngine, but then I also had to create an own version of OperatorProcessor, etc... I am not familiar with the pdfbox code, so maybe someone can give me a tip on how to do this in an elegant way (or tell me it is not possible with the current PDFStreamEngine). cheers, dirk
