[TIKA-861] Parse links in PDF

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.2
• Component/s: parser
• Labels: links pdfbox
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sasha Goodman
• Created: 14/Feb/12 01:17
• Updated: 27/Apr/12 14:01
• Resolved: 27/Apr/12 14:01

Description

Currently the XHTML doesn't contain links, although PDFBox parses them. I'm new to Tika and haven't done java for 6 years, but someone more experienced could probably do this in a few hours.

The PDF2XHTML method loops through the annotations.

See:

136: for(Object o : page.getAnnotations()) {

I found some code for dealing with links in annotations:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7174709/pdfbox-not-recognizing-a-link

It involves checking the class.

if( annotation instanceof PDAnnotationLink ) {
                PDAnnotationLink link = (PDAnnotationLink)annotation;

I hope this helps someone.