How can I manipulate text in PDF'd by using PDFBox

[Mac P <po...@hotmail.com>]

Hello Forum

Is there any way to to split a master pdf file consisted of so many pages into separate pages based on the content or keywords in each page?

Each page has the person's first and last name. I would like to grep the last name and write a scripts to separate each page, turn it into a new pdf file with the last name being part of the file name instead of sequential numbers matching the total number of pages at the end of each file name.

I know PDFs are binary documents. Are there any tools to look up the last names and manipulate them that way?

Thanks

Mac
 		 	   		  

Re: How can I manipulate text in PDF'd by using PDFBox

[Andreas Lehmkuehler <an...@lehmi.de>]

Hi,

Am 01.09.2012 04:24, schrieb Mac P:
>
> Hello Forum
>
> Is there any way to to split a master pdf file consisted of so many pages into separate pages based on the content or keywords in each page?
>
> Each page has the person's first and last name. I would like to grep the last name and write a scripts to separate each page, turn it into a new pdf file with the last name being part of the file name instead of sequential numbers matching the total number of pages at the end of each file name.
>
> I know PDFs are binary documents. Are there any tools to look up the last names and manipulate them that way?
Use PDFSplit [1] to split your pdf in single pages and ExtractText [2] to get 
the string your looking for. The first goal should work out of the box the 
latter could be complicated depending on the used fonts etc. Just give it a try.

> Thanks
>
> Mac

BR
Andreas Lehmkühler

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get any answer.

[1] http://pdfbox.apache.org/commandlineutilities/PDFSplit.html
[2] http://pdfbox.apache.org/commandlineutilities/ExtractText.html
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Re: How can I manipulate text in PDF'd by using PDFBox

[jl...@gi-bon.sk]

Hi Mac,

you can use PDFTextStripper for this.
it will return you all texts from pages


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From:   Mac P <po...@hotmail.com>
To:     pdfbox <us...@pdfbox.apache.org>, 
Date:   01. 09. 2012 10:02
Subject:        How can I manipulate text in PDF'd by using PDFBox




Hello Forum

Is there any way to to split a master pdf file consisted of so many pages 
into separate pages based on the content or keywords in each page?

Each page has the person's first and last name. I would like to grep the 
last name and write a scripts to separate each page, turn it into a new 
pdf file with the last name being part of the file name instead of 
sequential numbers matching the total number of pages at the end of each 
file name.

I know PDFs are binary documents. Are there any tools to look up the last 
names and manipulate them that way?

Thanks

Mac