Hi Maruan
> And again thanks heaps for your suggestion. It pointed me exactly towards
> > the right direction. Solved it using the following code:
> >
> > PDFTextStripper pdfTextStripper = new PDFTextStripper();
> > String text = pdfTextStripper.getText(srcDoc);
> > String textNormalized = text.replaceAll("\\n", " ").replaceAll("\\s{2}",
> " ");
> > List<String> metaData = getMetaData(textNormalized);
> > metaData.forEach(s -> System.out.printf("%s = %s%n", s.split("=")));
> >
> > public static List<String> getMetaData(String largeText){
> > Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\$\\$.*=.*\\s");
> > Matcher mtch = pattern.matcher(largeText);
> > List<String> entries = new ArrayList<>();
> > while (mtch.find()) {
> > entries.add(mtch.group());
> > }
> > return entries;
> > }
> >
> > Works like a charm!
> >
> > Question: Would it be possible to extract the text only from one page
> (the
> > first one) via the PDFTextStripper API?
>
> you can use PDFTextStripper.setStartPage() and PDFTextStripper.setEndPage()
>
>
Indeed, and it works wonderfully. Now, I know why PDFTextStripper has all
those methods ;). Why not just convert the class into a Builder pattern?
Anyway, it works for my case. Strangely enough the API of PDFTextStripper
starts with page 1 as index 1, while PDDocument getPage() uses index 0 as
page 1.
I also did not figure out the semantics of setParagraphStart(String ...).
Cheers
Roberto
