PDox 1.6.0 Extract text between 2 bookmarks on the same page - SOS!!

[davidoudou]

Hi Guys,

I have a project where I need to extract text between bookmarks from a pdf file and then copy the text to a .txt Several bookmarks can be on the same page...

As an example:





I have a code which nearly works (see below), but I have a problem when several bookmarks are on the same page... My guess is that stripper.setStartBookmark sets the start page and not the start coordinate... Could you please confirm ?

Is there an easy to solve this probem ?

Is it possible to get the coordiante of my bookmarks and then define a rectangle and use PDFTextStripperby area?

If PDFbox not the easiest way to do so, I don't mind to change... What about IText ? Something else ?


here is my code to do so:

import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.*;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.documentnavi gation.outline.PDDocumentOutline;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.documentnavi gation.outline.PDOutlineItem;
import org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper;

public class ExtractText {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable {
PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load("C:/sample.pdf");
PDDocumentOutline root = doc.getDocumentCatalog().getDocumentOutline();
PDOutlineItem item = root.getFirstChild();
int i=0;
while( item != null )
{
System.out.println( "Item:" + item.getTitle() );
PDOutlineItem child = item.getFirstChild();
while( child != null )
{
System.out.println( " Child:" +i+ "Title: "+ child.getTitle() );
System.out.println( child );

if (child.getNextSibling()!= null) {
File output = new File("C:/sampleExtract"+i+".txt");
BufferedWriter wr = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(output)));
PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFTextStripper();
stripper.setStartBookmark(child);
stripper.setEndBookmark(child.getNextSibling());
stripper.writeText(doc, wr);
wr.close();
}
child = child.getNextSibling();
i++;
}
item = item.getNextSibling();
}
}

}