org.apache.pdfbox.util
Class PDFImageWriter

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine
      org.apache.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) Converts a given page range of a PDF document to bitmap images.
boolean	writeImage(PDDocument document, String imageFormat, String password, int startPage, int endPage, String outputPrefix, int imageType, int resolution) Converts a given page range of a PDF document to bitmap images.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine

getColorSpaces, getCurrentPage, getFonts, getGraphicsStack, getGraphicsState, getGraphicsStates, getResources, getTextLineMatrix, getTextMatrix, getTotalCharCnt, getValidCharCnt, getXObjects, inspectFontEncoding, isForceParsing, processEncodedText, processOperator, processOperator, processStream, processSubStream, processTextPosition, registerOperatorProcessor, resetEngine, setColorSpaces, setFonts, setForceParsing, setGraphicsStack, setGraphicsState, setGraphicsStates, setTextLineMatrix, setTextMatrix

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

PDFImageWriter

public PDFImageWriter()

Instantiate a new PDFImageWriter object.

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

Converts a given page range of a PDF document to bitmap images.

Parameters:

document - the PDF document

imageType - the target format (ex. "png")

password - the password (needed if the PDF is encrypted)

startPage - the start page (1 is the first page)

endPage - the end page (set to Integer.MAX_VALUE for all pages)

outputPrefix - used to construct the filename for the individual images

Returns:

true if the images were produced, false if there was an error

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs

writeImage

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

Converts a given page range of a PDF document to bitmap images.

Parameters:

document - the PDF document

imageFormat - the target format (ex. "png")

password - the password (needed if the PDF is encrypted)

startPage - the start page (1 is the first page)

endPage - the end page (set to Integer.MAX_VALUE for all pages)

outputPrefix - used to construct the filename for the individual images

imageType - the image type (see BufferedImage.TYPE_*)

resolution - the resolution in dpi (dots per inch)

Returns:

true if the images were produced, false if there was an error

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs