Sadly for you, that one has nothing to do with page labels. It's really
just a footer on the page. And there is no concept of "footer" in PDF.
It's just text at the bottom.
Tilman
Am 16.05.2017 um 15:21 schrieb David Patterson:
They show up when I print the PDF or open it to read it. I want to extract
the Table of Contents from each of > 100 PDFs so I can make a super-Table
of Contents and allow users to search for the document they need to read.
(The file name of the desired contents is not obvious, and so with a
consolidated Table of Contents, a more novice user can find the content
they want to read and open the correct document to see the text. These are
Standard Operating Procedures for a 24x7 production facility and the
operators might need to review what to do in case of a problem.
I was hoping that in the transition from Word (where the documents are
authored, the saving as a PDF and combining them into Portfolios some part
of the process would have identified it as a page label, but I guess that
did not happen.
I'm able to find the text of that string since it only occurs in the footer
of the page.
Thanks.
Dave Patterson
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]>
wrote:
Am 16.05.2017 um 14:35 schrieb David Patterson:
Tilman,
The code I tried is:
byte[] bytes = // content of file as a byte array
PDDocument pdDocument = PDDocument.load( bytes );
PDDocumentCatalog cat2 = pdDocument.getDocumentCatalog();
PDPageLabels pageLabels = cat2.getPageLabels();
if ( pageLabels == null ) {
System.out.println( "Page labels missing " );
}
I'm getting "Page labels missing" on each document.
Then lets go back to the beginning. You mentioned "I've got page numbers
like "TOC-1", "TOC-2", "Page 1"". Where did these show up?
Tilman
I have no idea of, or control over the process used to convert a Word file
into a PDF. I just inherited a bunch of PDFs that I'm trying to interpret.
Dave Patterson
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]>
wrote:
Am 15.05.2017 um 19:11 schrieb David Patterson:
Alas, after testing with my documents, the PageLabels is null. :-(
But you said it has "TOC-1". This sounds like pagelabels. You can also
try
with PDFDebugger, it will show the labels if there are some.
Tilman
Thank you for the help and encouragement.
Dave Patterson
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Tilman Hausherr <
[email protected]>
wrote:
Am 15.05.2017 um 18:30 schrieb David Patterson:
Tilman,
Thank you very much. (I feel bad asking some of the questions, but the
data
is stored in "out of the way" corners that are hard to find.
Don't :-)
Is there any documentation that explains how the linkages work? Would
it
help to have the PDF Standard Document?
Yes. I read there all the time. The PDFBox API closely follows the PDF
specification. So here it's linked from the document catalog, so the
methods used are in the PDDocumentCatalog class. But asking was a good
decision as this got you that convenience method (that is in
PDFDebugger).
Tilman
Thanks.
Dave Patterson
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Tilman Hausherr <
[email protected]>
wrote:
Am 15.05.2017 um 15:20 schrieb David Patterson:
I've now got my code working to iterate through a PDDocument and
process
it
page by page.
Next hurdle: Is there a way to get the page number as printed? I've
got
page numbers like "TOC-1", "TOC-2", "Page 1", ...
How much work is it to get the "TOC-1"?
Thanks.
Dave Patterson
/**
* Convenience method to get the page label if available.
*
* @param document
* @param pageIndex 0-based page number.
* @return a page label or null if not available.
*/
public static String getPageLabel(PDDocument document, int
pageIndex)
{
PDPageLabels pageLabels;
try
{
pageLabels = document.getDocumentCatalog().
getPageLabels();
}
catch (IOException ex)
{
return ex.getMessage();
}
if (pageLabels != null)
{
String[] labels = pageLabels.getLabelsByPageIndi
ces();
if (labels[pageIndex] != null)
{
return labels[pageIndex];
}
}
return null;
}
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