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special/multiple_documents

Generalized form of the simple text extractor for multiple documents.

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/*
 * This topic is a generalized form of the simple text extractor. In addition to
 * the simple version this topic demonstrates how to process many PDF documents
 * in a loop. The interesting point here is error handling and try/catch clauses
 * for TET exceptions and other exceptions. The main goal is to make sure that
 * the loop over all input documents continues even if one or more damaged
 * documents are encountered.
 * 
 * Required software: TET 5
 * 
 * Required data: PDF document
 * 
 */
package com.pdflib.cookbook.tet.special;

import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

import com.pdflib.TETException;
import com.pdflib.TET;

public class multiple_documents {
    /*
     * Global option list
     */
    static final String GLOBAL_OPTLIST = "searchpath={../resource/cmap " + "../resource/glyphlist ../input}";

    /*
     * Document-specific option list
     */
    static final String DOC_OPTLIST = "";

    /*
     * Page-specific option list
     */
    static final String PAGE_OPTLIST = "granularity=page";

    /*
     * Separator to emit after each chunk of text. This depends on the applications
     * needs; for granularity=word a space character may be useful.
     */
    static final String SEPARATOR = "\n";

    /*
     * Set inmemory to true to generate the image in memory.
     */
    static final boolean INMEMORY = false;

    /*
     * The encoding in which the output is sent to System.out. For running the
     * example in a Windows command window, you can set this for example to
     * "windows-1252" for getting Latin-1 output.
     */
    private static final String OUTPUT_ENCODING = System.getProperty("file.encoding");

    /*
     * For printing to System.out in the encoding specified via OUTPUT_ENCODING.
     */
    private static PrintStream out;

    public static void main(String argv[]) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
        System.out.println("Using output encoding \"" + OUTPUT_ENCODING + "\"");
        out = new PrintStream(System.out, true, OUTPUT_ENCODING);

        if (argv.length < 1) {
            System.err.println("usage: multiple_documents <filename> ...");
            System.exit(1);
        }

        TET tet = null;

        try {
            tet = new TET();
            tet.set_option(GLOBAL_OPTLIST);

            for (int i = 0; i < argv.length; i += 1) {
                try {
                    int doc = tet.open_document(argv[i], DOC_OPTLIST);
                    if (doc == -1) {
                        System.err.println("Unable to open document \"" + argv[i] + "\": error " + tet.get_errnum()
                                + " in " + tet.get_apiname() + "(): " + tet.get_errmsg());
                        continue;
                    }

                    /* get number of pages in the document */
                    int n_pages = (int) tet.pcos_get_number(doc, "length:pages");

                    /* loop over pages */
                    for (int pageno = 1; pageno <= n_pages; ++pageno) {
                        String text;
                        int page = tet.open_page(doc, pageno, PAGE_OPTLIST);

                        if (page < 0) {
                            print_tet_error(tet, pageno);
                            continue; /* try next page */
                        }

                        /*
                         * Retrieve all text fragments; This is actually not required for
                         * granularity=page, but must be used for other granularities.
                         */
                        while ((text = tet.get_text(page)) != null) {
                            /* loop over all characters */
                            while (tet.get_char_info(page) != -1) {
                                /*
                                 * The following shows how to query the fontname; The position could be fetched
                                 * from tet->x and tet->y. The fontname variable is commented out to prevent an
                                 * unused variable warning.
                                 */
                                /* String fontname = */
                                tet.pcos_get_string(doc, "fonts[" + tet.fontid + "]/name");
                            }

                            /* print the retrieved text */
                            out.print(text);

                            /* print a separator between chunks of text */
                            out.print(SEPARATOR);
                        }

                        if (tet.get_errnum() != 0) {
                            print_tet_error(tet, pageno);
                        }

                        tet.close_page(page);
                    }

                    tet.close_document(doc);
                } catch (TETException ex) {
                    System.err.println("Error while processing document \"" + argv[i] + "\": error " + ex.get_errnum()
                            + " in " + ex.get_apiname() + "(): " + ex.get_errmsg());

                    /*
                     * Create a new TET object for processing the next document, as after a
                     * TETException has occurred the same TET object must no longer be used. Do not
                     * forget to set the global options again for the new TET object.
                     */
                    tet.delete();
                    tet = new TET();
                    tet.set_option(GLOBAL_OPTLIST);
                }
            }
        } catch (TETException e) {
            System.err.println("TET exception occurred in multiple_documents sample:");
            System.err.println("[" + e.get_errnum() + "] " + e.get_apiname() + ": " + e.get_errmsg());
            System.exit(1);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println(e);
            System.exit(1);
        } finally {
            if (tet != null) {
                tet.delete();
            }
        }
    }

    /*
     * Report a TET error while processing a page.
     * 
     * @param tet    The TET object
     * @param pageno The page number on which the error occurred
     */
    private static void print_tet_error(TET tet, int pageno) {
        System.err.println("Error " + tet.get_errnum() + " in " + tet.get_apiname() + "() on page " + pageno + ": "
                + tet.get_errmsg());
    }
}