Package org.apache.pdfbox.multipdf

Class PageExtractor

java.lang.Object

org.apache.pdfbox.multipdf.PageExtractor

public class PageExtractor
extends java.lang.Object

This class will extract one or more sequential pages and create a new document.

Author:

Adam Nichols (adam@apache.org)

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
PageExtractor(PDDocument sourceDocument)	Creates a new instance of PageExtractor
PageExtractor(PDDocument sourceDocument, int startPage, int endPage)	Creates a new instance of PageExtractor

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
PDDocument	extract()	This will take a document and extract the desired pages into a new document.
int	getEndPage()	Gets the last page number (inclusive) to be extracted.
int	getStartPage()	Gets the first page number to be extracted.
void	setEndPage(int endPage)	Sets the last page number to be extracted.
void	setStartPage(int startPage)	Sets the first page number to be extracted.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

PageExtractor

public PageExtractor(PDDocument sourceDocument)

Creates a new instance of PageExtractor

Parameters:

sourceDocument - The document to split.

PageExtractor

public PageExtractor(PDDocument sourceDocument,
                     int startPage,
                     int endPage)

Creates a new instance of PageExtractor

Parameters:

sourceDocument - The document to split.

startPage - The first page you want extracted (inclusive)

endPage - The last page you want extracted (inclusive)

Method Detail

extract

public PDDocument extract()
                   throws java.io.IOException

This will take a document and extract the desired pages into a new document. Both startPage and endPage are included in the extracted document. If the endPage is greater than the number of pages in the source document, it will go to the end of the document. If startPage is less than 1, it'll start with page 1. If startPage is greater than endPage or greater than the number of pages in the source document, a blank document will be returned.

Returns:

The extracted document

Throws:

java.io.IOException - If there is an IOError

getStartPage

public int getStartPage()

Gets the first page number to be extracted.

Returns:

the first page number which should be extracted

setStartPage

public void setStartPage(int startPage)

Sets the first page number to be extracted.

Parameters:

startPage - the first page number which should be extracted

getEndPage

public int getEndPage()

Gets the last page number (inclusive) to be extracted.

Returns:

the last page number which should be extracted

setEndPage

public void setEndPage(int endPage)

Sets the last page number to be extracted.

Parameters:

endPage - the last page number which should be extracted