Class PDFStreamParser

java.lang.Object
org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser
org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFStreamParser

public class PDFStreamParser extends BaseParser
This will parse a PDF byte stream and extract operands and such.
Author:
Ben Litchfield
  • Constructor Details

  • Method Details

    • parse

      public void parse() throws IOException
      This will parse all the tokens in the stream. This will close the stream when it is finished parsing. You can then access these with getTokens().
      Throws:
      IOException - If there is an error while parsing the stream.
    • getTokens

      public List<Object> getTokens()
      This will get the tokens that were parsed from the stream by the parse() method.
      Returns:
      All of the tokens in the stream.
    • parseNextToken

      public Object parseNextToken() throws IOException
      This will parse the next token in the stream.
      Returns:
      The next token in the stream or null if there are no more tokens in the stream.
      Throws:
      IOException - If an io error occurs while parsing the stream.
    • readOperator

      protected String readOperator() throws IOException
      This will read an operator from the stream.
      Returns:
      The operator that was read from the stream.
      Throws:
      IOException - If there is an error reading from the stream.
    • close

      public void close() throws IOException
      Close the underlying resource.
      Throws:
      IOException - if something went wrong