org.pdfbox.util
Class PDFImageWriter

java.lang.Object
  org.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine
      org.pdfbox.util.PDFImageWriter

public class PDFImageWriter

extends PDFStreamEngine

This class will take a pdf document and strip out all of the text and ignore the formatting and such. Please note; it is up to clients of this class to verify that a specific user has the correct permissions to extract text from the PDF document. Patterned after PDFTextStripper

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $

Author:

Daniel Wilson

Constructor Summary

PDFImageWriter()
Instantiate a new PDFImageWriter object.

PDFImageWriter(Properties props)
Instantiate a new PDFImageWriter object.

Method Summary

boolean

WriteImage(PDDocument document, String imageType, String password, int startPage, int endPage, String outputPrefix)

Methods inherited from class org.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine

getColorSpaces, getCurrentPage, getFonts, getGraphicsStack, getGraphicsState, getGraphicsStates, getResources, getTextLineMatrix, getTextMatrix, getXObjects, processOperator, processOperator, processStream, processSubStream, registerOperatorProcessor, resetEngine, setColorSpaces, setFonts, setGraphicsStack, setGraphicsState, setGraphicsStates, setTextLineMatrix, setTextMatrix, showCharacter, showString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

PDFImageWriter

public PDFImageWriter()
               throws IOException

Instantiate a new PDFImageWriter object.

Throws:

IOException - If there is an error loading the properties.

PDFImageWriter

public PDFImageWriter(Properties props)
               throws IOException

Instantiate a new PDFImageWriter object. Loading all of the operator mappings from the properties object that is passed in.

Parameters:

props - The properties containing the mapping of operators to PDFOperator classes.

Throws:

IOException - If there is an error reading the properties.

Method Detail

WriteImage

public boolean WriteImage(PDDocument document,
                          String imageType,
                          String password,
                          int startPage,
                          int endPage,
                          String outputPrefix)
                   throws IOException

Throws:

IOException