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Posted to users@pdfbox.apache.org by CDB <cb...@burkeitconsulting.com> on 2012/06/08 19:05:06 UTC

COSString Selection

I am having issues using the getText method (ExtractText) functions as it
cats all text together.
I would like to go a step deeper and pull each COSString value and delimit
them.
Below is the code I am using thus far to get all text.

I am not 
        try {

 

           PDFTextStripper pdfTextStripper = new PDFTextStripper();

            doc = PDDocument.load( stream );



          return (pdfTextStripper.getText(doc));

          



        } finally {

            quietlyClose(doc);

        }


I noticed that the the logs show the operators and types.  But some strings
are broken up into multiple COSString fields within arrays.

I would like to know what methods can I use to traverse/look all fields and
select the COStrings out.

Thanks

Re: COSString Selection

Posted by CDB <cb...@burkeitconsulting.com>.

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On 6/8/12 1:05 PM, "CDB" <cb...@burkeitconsulting.com> wrote:

>I am having issues using the getText method (ExtractText) functions as it
>cats all text together.
>I would like to go a step deeper and pull each COSString value and delimit
>them.
>Below is the code I am using thus far to get all text.
>
>I am not 
>        try {
>
> 
>
>           PDFTextStripper pdfTextStripper = new PDFTextStripper();
>
>            doc = PDDocument.load( stream );
>
>
>
>          return (pdfTextStripper.getText(doc));
>
>          
>
>
>
>        } finally {
>
>            quietlyClose(doc);
>
>        }
>
>
>I noticed that the the logs show the operators and types.  But some
>strings
>are broken up into multiple COSString fields within arrays.
>
>I would like to know what methods can I use to traverse/look all fields
>and
>select the COStrings out.
>
>Thanks
>
>