Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Morning Sir, The basic construct for extracting the value in a field is:
field.getFullyQualifiedName().equalsIgnoreCase(fullyQualifiedName).getValue(
) - note: I use fully qualified names(FQN) to prevent errors
My way of extracting the FQN is as follows(the short version):
private void processField(PDField field,boolean buildPDList) throws
IOException
{
List kids = field.getKids();
if(kids != null)
{
Iterator kidsIter = kids.iterator();
while(kidsIter.hasNext())
{
Object pdfObj = kidsIter.next();
if(pdfObj instanceof PDField)
{
PDField kid = (PDField)pdfObj;
processField(kid,buildPDList);
}
}
}
else
{
If(!buildPDlist)
{
System.err.println(field.getFullyQualifiedName());
}
else
{
//other processing
}
}
}
Hope that helps.
V/R,
Mark Strein
-----Original Message-----
From: Amir H. Jadidinejad [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2014 8:53 PM
To: user pdfbox
Subject: How to find the position of a specific paragraph in the input PDF?
I'm going to extract the content of a PDF file using PDFBox library. The
content should be processed paragraph-by-paragraph and for each paragraph, I
need its position for follow-up processing. Using the following code, I can
extract the whole content of an input PDF:
PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load(file);
PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFTextStripper(); String txt =
stripper.getText(doc); doc.close();
I have two problems:
1. I don't know how to extract the content paragraph by paragraph.
2. I don't know how to store the position of a paragraph for follow-up
processing (for example highlighting and etc.)
Thanks.
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE
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