/*
 * This class is part of the book "iText in Action - 2nd Edition"
 * written by Bruno Lowagie (ISBN: 9781935182610)
 * For more info, go to: http://itextpdf.com/examples/
 * This example only works with the AGPL version of iText.
 */

package part4.chapter15;

import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;

import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.PdfTextExtractor;

public class ExtractPageContentSorted2 {

    /** The original PDF that will be parsed. */
    public static final String PREFACE = "resources/pdfs/preface.pdf";
    /** The resulting text file. */
    public static final String RESULT = "results/part4/chapter15/preface_sorted2.txt";
    
    /**
     * Parses a specific area of a PDF to a plain text file.
     * @param pdf the original PDF
     * @param txt the resulting text
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public void parsePdf(String pdf, String txt) throws IOException {
        PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(pdf);
        PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new FileOutputStream(txt));
        for (int i = 1; i <= reader.getNumberOfPages(); i++) {
            out.println(PdfTextExtractor.getTextFromPage(reader, i));
        }
        out.flush();
        out.close();
        reader.close();
    }

    /**
     * Main method.
     * @param    args    no arguments needed
     * @throws DocumentException 
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException {
        new ExtractPageContentSorted2().parsePdf(PREFACE, RESULT);
    }
}