[TIKA-2845] Override ProcessPages in PDFTextStripper

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.21
• Assignee: Tim Allison
• Reporter: Tim Allison
• Created: 03/Apr/19 13:14
• Updated: 03/Apr/19 15:15
• Resolved: 03/Apr/19 14:15

Description

On the PDFBox user list, lehmi confirmed (and tilman clarified) that PDFTextStripper's processPages skips pages that lack a "Contents" element[1].  Inline images are part of the "Contents" element and would still be processed (e.g. in OCR).  

 

However, there are other elements that might be on a page that does not have a "Contents" element, such as an annotation with an embedded file.

 

We should override processPages() to process all pages.

[1] Start of thread: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9f34f71f764ef2ac48bb2fe3d19aa0496fd989040a6df0c1d899a885@%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.org%3E