[PDFBOX-3176] Add a removeRegion method in PDFTextSTripperByArea class

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.10, 1.8.11, 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.11, 2.0.0
• Component/s: Text extraction
• Environment: All
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Praveer
• Created: 30/Dec/15 13:01
• Updated: 18/Jan/16 12:01
• Resolved: 01/Jan/16 10:57

Description

Hi,

I am parsing a very complicated PDF, for which I had to enable (setSortByPosition as true), otherwise the Parser is not able to do sequential text extraction.

So I decided to use PDFTextStripperByArea class, and then make rectangles to extract text. But problem here is that If I make many rectangles in a single page, again there is no logical sequence of text extracted, So to get around this it will be awesome to have a method to remove regions, then we can add a region extract text, remove that region , then again add new region and so on....

I have already done a POC in my local computer and it works fine. added this method and tested.

public void removeRegion(String regionName) {
this.regions.remove(regionName);
this.regionArea.remove(regionName);
}

I can contribute this code myself, if you suggest, let me know, thanks and regards
Praveer