Module: Asposepdfjava::ExtractTextFromAllPages

Defined in:
lib/asposepdfjava/Text/extracttextfromallpages.rb

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#initialize ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/asposepdfjava/Text/extracttextfromallpages.rb', line 3

def initialize()
	# The path to the documents directory.
    data_dir = File.dirname(File.dirname(File.dirname(File.dirname(__FILE__)))) + '/data/'
            
    # Open the target document
    pdf = Rjb::import('com.aspose.pdf.Document').new(data_dir + 'input1.pdf')

    # create TextAbsorber object to extract text
    text_absorber = Rjb::import('com.aspose.pdf.TextAbsorber').new
    
    # accept the absorber for all the pages
    pdf.getPages().accept(text_absorber)
    
    # In order to extract text from specific page of document, we need to specify the particular page using its index against accept(..) method.
    # accept the absorber for particular PDF page
    # pdfDocument.getPages().get_Item(1).accept(textAbsorber);
    
    #get the extracted text
    extracted_text = text_absorber.getText()

    # create a writer and open the file
    writer = Rjb::import('java.io.FileWriter').new(Rjb::import('java.io.File').new(data_dir + "extracted_text.out.txt"))
    writer.write(extracted_text)
    # write a line of text to the file
    # tw.WriteLine(extractedText);
    # close the stream
    writer.close()
    
    puts "Text extracted successfully. Check output file."
end