You can use the PDFSplit<http://pdfbox.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/pdfbox/PDFSplit.html>class, or for a more basic approach, the Splitter<http://pdfbox.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/pdfbox/util/Splitter.html>util directly.
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Foley Ma <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to use PDFBox to extract a page from a multi page document > and creating a new document from it. I thought it would be as simple > as getting the PDPage, get contents..then create a new PDPage, set > content, and add it to a new PDDocument...but I guess it's not that > straight forward, or I'm missing something. > > If I extract a PDPage, and put that same PDPAge it in a new document > and save it, it works. > > i.e. > > InputStream fileStream = > this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("sample.pdf"); > PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(fileStream); > PDPage pdfPage = (PDPage) > document.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages().get(0); > > PDDocument document2 = new PDDocument(); > > > document2.addPage(pdfPage); > document2.save("c:\\generatedPDF.pdf"); > document2.close(); > > > But if I take the PDPage content and create a new PDPage, it doesn't work. > > InputStream fileStream = > this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("sample.pdf"); > PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(fileStream); > PDPage pdfPage = (PDPage) > document.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages().get(0); > > PDDocument document2 = new PDDocument(); > PDPage testPDPage = new PDPage(); > > testPDPage.setContents(pdfPage.getContents()); > > document2.addPage(testPDPage); > document2.save("c:\\generatedPDF.pdf"); > document2.close(); > > > At the end of the day, what I'm trying to do is extract all the pages > from the document, store it in a database, retrieve each page sometime > in the future and create a document with that one page. So, at some > point I figure I'll be converting the contents inty a bytearray and > store that, and recreate it. > > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks for your time. > > Foley >
