com.lowagie.text.pdf.parser
Class PdfTextExtractor

java.lang.Object
  com.lowagie.text.pdf.parser.PdfTextExtractor

public class PdfTextExtractor
extends Object

Extracts text from a PDF file.

Since:

2.1.4

Constructor Summary

PdfTextExtractor(PdfReader reader)
Creates a new Text Extractor object, using a SimpleTextExtractingPdfContentRenderListener as the render listener

PdfTextExtractor(PdfReader reader, TextProvidingRenderListener renderListener)
Creates a new Text Extractor object.

Method Summary

String

getTextFromPage(int page) Gets the text from a page.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

PdfTextExtractor

public PdfTextExtractor(PdfReader reader)

Creates a new Text Extractor object, using a SimpleTextExtractingPdfContentRenderListener as the render listener

Parameters:

reader - the reader with the PDF

PdfTextExtractor

public PdfTextExtractor(PdfReader reader,
                        TextProvidingRenderListener renderListener)

Creates a new Text Extractor object.

Parameters:

reader - the reader with the PDF

renderListener - the render listener that will be used to analyze renderText operations and provide resultant text

Method Detail

getTextFromPage

public String getTextFromPage(int page)
                       throws IOException

Gets the text from a page.

Parameters:

page - the page number of the page

Returns:

a String with the content as plain text (without PDF syntax)

Throws:

IOException