Parsing PDFs

JAVA

/*
 * Example written by Bruno Lowagie in answer to:
 * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24506830/can-we-use-text-extraction-strategy-after-applying-location-extraction-strategy
 */

package sandbox.parse;

import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Rectangle;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.FilteredTextRenderListener;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.LocationTextExtractionStrategy;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.PdfTextExtractor;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.RegionTextRenderFilter;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.RenderFilter;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.TextExtractionStrategy;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.TextRenderInfo;

import java.io.IOException;

public class ParseCustom {

    public static final String SRC = "resources/pdfs/nameddestinations.pdf";

    class FontRenderFilter extends RenderFilter {
        public boolean allowText(TextRenderInfo renderInfo) {
            String font = renderInfo.getFont().getPostscriptFontName();
            return font.endsWith("Bold") || font.endsWith("Oblique");
        }
    }
    
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException {
        new ParseCustom().parse(SRC);
    }
    
    public void parse(String filename) throws IOException {
        PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(filename);
        Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(36, 750, 559, 806);
        RenderFilter regionFilter = new RegionTextRenderFilter(rect);
        FontRenderFilter fontFilter = new FontRenderFilter();
        TextExtractionStrategy strategy = new FilteredTextRenderListener(
                new LocationTextExtractionStrategy(), regionFilter, fontFilter);
        System.out.println(PdfTextExtractor.getTextFromPage(reader, 1, strategy));
        reader.close();
    }
}

JAVA

/*
 * Example written by Bruno Lowagie in answer to:
 * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26670919/itextsharp-diacritic-chars
 */
package sandbox.parse;

import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.PdfTextExtractor;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 *
 * @author Bruno Lowagie (iText Software)
 */
public class ParseCzech {
    
    public static final String SRC = "resources/pdfs/czech.pdf";
    public static final String DEST = "results/parse/czech.txt";
            
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException {
        File file = new File(DEST);
        file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
        new ParseCzech().parse(SRC);
    }
    
    
    public void parse(String filename) throws IOException {
        PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(filename);
        FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(DEST);
        for (int page = 1; page <= 1; page++) {
            fos.write(PdfTextExtractor.getTextFromPage(reader, page).getBytes("UTF-8"));
        }
        fos.flush();
        fos.close();
    }
}