Description
The parser proposed just parses the minimal required from the PDF file according to PDF specifications. A random page can be parsed without having to parse the entire document first. Exist parsing code was used to transfer existing bugfixes and compliance fixes to this parser.
The parser has been tested with the text extraction tool. But has not been tested with the viewer or other pdf tools. Some tools may need to be recoded to use the parser to prevent null pointer exceptions since the COSDocument will contain null pointers for COSObjects that have not been parsed. For example, the Current Text Extractor assumes the entire document is loaded. On this code submission a modified text extractor is also included with the name OnePagePDFTextStripper. The class has a function that will extract the text from a PDPage submitted by the programmer.