[jira] [Updated] (PDFBOX-3176) Add a removeRegion method in PDFTextSTripperByArea class

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

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3176?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Tilman Hausherr updated PDFBOX-3176:
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    Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
                       1.8.11

> Add a removeRegion method in PDFTextSTripperByArea class
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-3176
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3176
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Text extraction
>    Affects Versions: 1.8.10, 1.8.11, 2.0.0
>         Environment: All
>            Reporter: Praveer
>             Fix For: 1.8.11, 2.0.0
>
>
> Hi,
> I am parsing a very complicated PDF, for which I had to enable (setSortByPosition as true), otherwise the Parser is not able to do sequential text extraction.
> So I decided to use PDFTextStripperByArea class, and then make rectangles to extract text. But problem here is that If I make many rectangles in a single page, again there is no logical sequence of text extracted, So to get around this it will be awesome to have a method to remove regions, then we can add a region extract text, remove that region , then again add new region and so on....
> I have already done a POC in my local computer and it works fine. added this method and tested.
> public void removeRegion(String regionName) {
>     this.regions.remove(regionName);
>     this.regionArea.remove(regionName);
> }
> I can contribute this code myself, if you suggest, let me know, thanks and regards
> Praveer



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