text/text_extractor
PDF text extractor based on PDFlib TET.
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/*
* PDF text extractor based on PDFlib TET
*
* Required software: TET 5
*
* Required data: PDF document
*
*/
package com.pdflib.cookbook.tet.text;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import com.pdflib.TETException;
import com.pdflib.TET;
public class text_extractor {
/*
* 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";
/*
* 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);
TET tet = null;
try {
if (argv.length != 1) {
throw new Exception("usage: text_extractor <filename>");
}
tet = new TET();
tet.set_option(GLOBAL_OPTLIST);
int doc = tet.open_document(argv[0], DOC_OPTLIST);
if (doc == -1) {
throw new Exception(
"Error " + tet.get_errnum() + "in " + tet.get_apiname() + "(): " + tet.get_errmsg());
}
/* 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 e) {
System.err.println("TET exception occurred in extractor 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.
*
* @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());
}
}