com.lowagie.text.pdf.parser

Interface TextAssemblyBuffer

All Known Implementing Classes:

FinalText, ParsedText, ParsedTextImpl, Word

public interface TextAssemblyBuffer

Author:

dgd

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	accumulate(TextAssembler p, String contextName) We pass ourselves to the assembler, which is a visitor, so that it can accumulate information on this text depending on its type.
void	assemble(TextAssembler p)
FinalText	getFinalText(PdfReader reader, int page, TextAssembler assembler, boolean useMarkup)
String	getText()

Method Detail

getText

@Nullable
String getText()

Returns:

the text to render

getFinalText

FinalText getFinalText(PdfReader reader,
                       int page,
                       TextAssembler assembler,
                       boolean useMarkup)

Parameters:

reader - pdfReader that knows about our document. (size, etc. available here).

page - which page are we extracting text from.

assembler - Builds result by accepting content from text components of various sorts.

useMarkup - Should we generate tagged text, or just plain text.

Returns:

the final text ready to concatenate into result string.

accumulate

void accumulate(TextAssembler p,
                String contextName)

We pass ourselves to the assembler, which is a visitor, so that it can accumulate information on this text depending on its type. The result is calculated by a final "assembly" phase, after accumulation is done. This is because we may have non-contiguous items in a PDF text stream.

Parameters:

p - the assembler that is visiting us.

contextName - Name of the surrounding markup element/"context" if we're generating tagged output.

See Also:

accumulate(com.lowagie.text.pdf.parser.TextAssembler, String)

assemble

void assemble(TextAssembler p)

Parameters:

p - we may pass ourselves to this assembler again during the final assembly process.