[jira] [Created] (PDFBOX-3177) Change some modifiers from private to protected in PDFTextStripper Class

["Praveer (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Praveer created PDFBOX-3177:
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             Summary: Change some modifiers from private to protected in PDFTextStripper Class
                 Key: PDFBOX-3177
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3177
             Project: PDFBox
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Text extraction
    Affects Versions: 1.8.10
         Environment: All
            Reporter: Praveer
             Fix For: 1.8.10


Hi,

I am parsing a very complicated PDF for which text extraction is not in proper sequence, so I had to enable setSortByPosition = True.

Now I want to access each TextPosition element and do some processing with them, normally i would override processTextPosition method and do my stuff there, But since I have enabled setSortByPosition, the code that sorts before extracting text is invoked after processTextPosition, so I can not override processTextPosition to get text according to their position.

I did some research and found that overriding writeLine method of PDFTextStripper can be useful for me
because it processes each TextPosition after they are sorted according to their position.

So I have done a POC in my personal computer by doing following changes in PDFTextStripper class
1  - 'private' void writeLine() changed to 'protected'
2 -  'private' static final class WordWithTextPositions changed to 'protected' 

After this everything works as per my expectation, I think these changes are also going to help other people who use this library.

I can contribute this code myself, if you suggest, let me know, thanks and regards
Praveer



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