/* * Example written by Bruno Lowagie in answer to: * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27905740/remove-text-occurrences-contained-in-a-specified-area-with-itext */ package sandbox.parse; import com.itextpdf.text.BaseColor; import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException; import com.itextpdf.text.Rectangle; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfReader; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfStamper; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.pdfcleanup.PdfCleanUpLocation; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.pdfcleanup.PdfCleanUpProcessor; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; import sandbox.WrapToTest; @WrapToTest public class RemoveContentInRectangle { public static final String SRC = "resources/pdfs/page229.pdf"; public static final String DEST = "results/parse/page229_removed_content.pdf"; public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException { File file = new File(DEST); file.getParentFile().mkdirs(); new RemoveContentInRectangle().manipulatePdf(SRC, DEST); } public void manipulatePdf(String src, String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException { PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(src); PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileOutputStream(dest)); List cleanUpLocations = new ArrayList(); cleanUpLocations.add(new PdfCleanUpLocation(1, new Rectangle(97f, 405f, 480f, 445f), BaseColor.GRAY)); PdfCleanUpProcessor cleaner = new PdfCleanUpProcessor(cleanUpLocations, stamper); cleaner.cleanUp(); stamper.close(); reader.close(); } }