com.itextpdf.pdf2data

Class OcrWithPostProcessingEngine

java.lang.Object

com.itextpdf.pdf2data.OcrWithPostProcessingEngine

All Implemented Interfaces:

com.itextpdf.pdfocr.IOcrEngine

public class OcrWithPostProcessingEngine
extends Object
implements com.itextpdf.pdfocr.IOcrEngine

Engine which will apply post processors (if present) to results of base ocr engine.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
OcrWithPostProcessingEngine(com.itextpdf.pdfocr.IOcrEngine baseOcrEngine, List<IOcrEnginePostProcessor> postProcessors, boolean isTaggingSupported) Creates new OcrWithPostProcessingEngine instance.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	createTxtFile(List<File> inputImages, File txtFile) Performs OCR using provided IOcrEngine for the given list of input images and saves output to a text file using provided path.
void	createTxtFile(List<File> inputImages, File txtFile, com.itextpdf.pdfocr.OcrProcessContext ocrProcessContext) Performs OCR using provided IOcrEngine for the given list of input images and saves output to a text file using provided path.
Map<Integer,List>	doImageOcr(File input) Performs ocr with post-processing to your input file.
Map<Integer,List>	doImageOcr(File input, com.itextpdf.pdfocr.OcrProcessContext ocrProcessContext) Performs ocr with post-processing to your input file.
boolean	isTaggingSupported() Gets whether results will be tagged or not.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

OcrWithPostProcessingEngine

public OcrWithPostProcessingEngine(com.itextpdf.pdfocr.IOcrEngine baseOcrEngine,
                                   List<IOcrEnginePostProcessor> postProcessors,
                                   boolean isTaggingSupported)

Creates new OcrWithPostProcessingEngine instance.

Parameters:

baseOcrEngine - base ocr engine which implements IOcrEngine

postProcessors - List of IOcrEnginePostProcessor

isTaggingSupported - if true results will be tagged, otherwise tag structure will be missing

Method Detail

isTaggingSupported

public boolean isTaggingSupported()

Gets whether results will be tagged or not.

Returns:

true if results will be tagged, false otherwise;

doImageOcr

public Map<Integer,List> doImageOcr(File input)

Performs ocr with post-processing to your input file.

Specified by:

doImageOcr in interface com.itextpdf.pdfocr.IOcrEngine

Parameters:

input - input image File

Returns:

Map where key is Integer representing the number of the page and value is List of TextInfo elements where each TextInfo element contains a word or a line and its 4 coordinates (bbox)

doImageOcr

public Map<Integer,List> doImageOcr(File input,
                                                                  com.itextpdf.pdfocr.OcrProcessContext ocrProcessContext)

Performs ocr with post-processing to your input file.

Specified by:

doImageOcr in interface com.itextpdf.pdfocr.IOcrEngine

Parameters:

input - input image File

ocrProcessContext - ocr processing context

Returns:

Map where key is Integer representing the number of the page and value is List of TextInfo elements where each TextInfo element contains a word or a line and its 4 coordinates (bbox)

createTxtFile

public void createTxtFile(List<File> inputImages,
                          File txtFile)

Performs OCR using provided IOcrEngine for the given list of input images and saves output to a text file using provided path. Note that a human reading order is not guaranteed due to possible specifics of input images (multicolumn layout, tables etc.).

Specified by:

createTxtFile in interface com.itextpdf.pdfocr.IOcrEngine

Parameters:

inputImages - List of images to be OCRed

txtFile - file to be created

createTxtFile

public void createTxtFile(List<File> inputImages,
                          File txtFile,
                          com.itextpdf.pdfocr.OcrProcessContext ocrProcessContext)

Performs OCR using provided IOcrEngine for the given list of input images and saves output to a text file using provided path. Note that a human reading order is not guaranteed due to possible specifics of input images (multicolumn layout, tables etc.).

Specified by:

createTxtFile in interface com.itextpdf.pdfocr.IOcrEngine

Parameters:

inputImages - List of images to be OCRed

txtFile - file to be created

ocrProcessContext - ocr processing context