Package com.itextpdf.pdfocr.util

Class PdfOcrTextBuilder

java.lang.Object

com.itextpdf.pdfocr.util.PdfOcrTextBuilder

       public final class PdfOcrTextBuilder extends Object
      

Class to build text output from the provided image OCR result and write it to the TXT file.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static String	buildText(Map<Integer,List<TextInfo>> textInfos)	Constructs string output from the provided IOcrEngine.doImageOcr(java.io.File) result.
static void	generifyWordBBoxesByLine(Map<Integer,List<TextInfo>> textInfos)	Sorts the provided IOcrEngine.doImageOcr(java.io.File) result by lines and updates line bboxes to match the largest words.
static void	sortTextInfosByLines(Map<Integer,List<TextInfo>> textInfos)	Sorts the provided IOcrEngine.doImageOcr(java.io.File) result by lines.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Details

buildText

             public static String buildText
             (Map<Integer,List<TextInfo>> textInfos)
            

Constructs string output from the provided IOcrEngine.doImageOcr(java.io.File) result.

Parameters:

textInfos - 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)

Returns:

string output of the OCR result

generifyWordBBoxesByLine

             public static void generifyWordBBoxesByLine
             (Map<Integer,List<TextInfo>> textInfos)
            

Sorts the provided IOcrEngine.doImageOcr(java.io.File) result by lines and updates line bboxes to match the largest words.

Parameters:

textInfos - 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)

sortTextInfosByLines

             public static void sortTextInfosByLines
             (Map<Integer,List<TextInfo>> textInfos)
            

Sorts the provided IOcrEngine.doImageOcr(java.io.File) result by lines.

Parameters:

textInfos - 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)