The big one to override, IMO, is drawPage. For a different application, I also override:
- processTextPosition - fillPath - setStroke - getStroke - strokePath -- this might be key for your application ... - drawImage hope this helps. Daniel On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Ray Weidner < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently using PDFBox to provide me with text/location information in > order to heuristically detect table structures in a document. One way I'd > like to enhance this is by making use of actual grid lines, when they are > present. To do this, I believe I need to extract the vector graphics > commands from the document. > > I found one helpful post on this matter in the mail archives ( > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/pdfbox-users/200902.mbox/browser > ). > The recommendation was simply to override PageDrawer in order to intercept > graphics commands. This sounds like a good idea, but I'm totally unsure of > how to interpret the calls that I should be intercepting. Can anyone give > me some advice here, or point me to a document that should make things > clearer? > > Please be aware that I am both a newbie to PDFBox as well as the PDF > document standard, so don't assume too much about what I already know. > Thanks in advance. > > Ray Weidner >
