pdfbox-trunk/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/examples/util/PrintTextLocations.java
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package org.apache.pdfbox.examples.util;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.pdfbox.Loader;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripper;
import org.apache.pdfbox.text.TextPosition;

/**
 * This is an example on how to get some x/y coordinates of text.
 *
 * @author Ben Litchfield
 */
public class PrintTextLocations extends PDFTextStripper
{
    /**
     * Instantiate a new PDFTextStripper object.
     *
     * @throws IOException If there is an error loading the properties.
     */
    public PrintTextLocations() throws IOException
    {
    }

    /**
     * This will print the documents data.
     *
     * @param args The command line arguments.
     *
     * @throws IOException If there is an error parsing the document.
     */
    public static void main( String[] args ) throws IOException
    {
        if( args.length != 1 )
        {
            usage();
        }
        else
        {
            try (PDDocument document = Loader.loadPDF(new File(args[0])))
            {
                PDFTextStripper stripper = new PrintTextLocations();
                stripper.setSortByPosition( true );
                stripper.setStartPage( 0 );
                stripper.setEndPage( document.getNumberOfPages() );

                Writer dummy = new OutputStreamWriter(new ByteArrayOutputStream());
                stripper.writeText(document, dummy);
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Override the default functionality of PDFTextStripper.
     */
    @Override
    protected void writeString(String string, List<TextPosition> textPositions) throws IOException
    {
        for (TextPosition text : textPositions)
        {
            System.out.println( "String[" + text.getXDirAdj() + "," +
                    text.getYDirAdj() + " fs=" + text.getFontSize() + " xscale=" +
                    text.getXScale() + " height=" + text.getHeightDir() + " space=" +
                    text.getWidthOfSpace() + " width=" +
                    text.getWidthDirAdj() + "]" + text.getUnicode() );
        }
    }
    
    /**
     * This will print the usage for this document.
     */
    private static void usage()
    {
        System.err.println( "Usage: java " + PrintTextLocations.class.getName() + " <input-pdf>" );
    }
}
