Package edu.upf.taln.dri.common.connector.pdfx

Class PDFXConn

java.lang.Object

edu.upf.taln.dri.common.connector.pdfx.PDFXConn

public class PDFXConn
extends Object

Converting papers in PDF format to XML by means of PDFX (http://pdfx.cs.man.ac.uk/). Also utility methods to compress their images are added.

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static String	proxyHost
static Integer	proxyPort
static String	proxyScheme
static boolean	useProxy

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
PDFXConn()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static int	convertFilesAndStore(String fileOrDirFullPath, boolean enablePDFcompression, float compressionFactor, boolean recursiveDir, int timeout)	Convert by means of PDFX a PDF file or recursively all PDF files in a directory (http://pdfx.cs.man.ac.uk/).
static byte[]	pdfCompress(byte[] inputPDF, float compressionFactor, boolean greyImages)	Compress the images included in a PDF file in order to reduce the file size.
static String	processPDF(byte[] inputBytes, int timeout)	Get a PDF file (max 5Mb) as a byte array and transform it to an XML annotated file by means of the PDFX Web Service (http://pdfx.cs.man.ac.uk/).
static Map<String,String>	processPDFfile(String inputFilePath, int timeout)	Get an PDF file (max 5Mb) by means of its path and transform it to an XML annotated file by means of the PDFX Web Service (http://pdfx.cs.man.ac.uk/).

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

useProxy

public static boolean useProxy

proxyScheme

public static String proxyScheme

proxyHost

public static String proxyHost

proxyPort

public static Integer proxyPort

Constructor Detail

PDFXConn

public PDFXConn()

Method Detail

pdfCompress

public static byte[] pdfCompress(byte[] inputPDF,
                                 float compressionFactor,
                                 boolean greyImages)

Compress the images included in a PDF file in order to reduce the file size. The input and output file names are includes full file paths.

Parameters:

inputPDF -

compressionFactor -

greyImages -

Returns:

processPDFfile

public static Map<String,String> processPDFfile(String inputFilePath,
                                                      int timeout)

Get an PDF file (max 5Mb) by means of its path and transform it to an XML annotated file by means of the PDFX Web Service (http://pdfx.cs.man.ac.uk/).

Parameters:

inputFilePath -

timeout - set the socket timeout in milliseconds

Returns:

processPDF

public static String processPDF(byte[] inputBytes,
                                int timeout)

Get a PDF file (max 5Mb) as a byte array and transform it to an XML annotated file by means of the PDFX Web Service (http://pdfx.cs.man.ac.uk/).

Parameters:

inputBytes - input byte array

timeout - set the socket timeout in milliseconds

Returns:

convertFilesAndStore

public static int convertFilesAndStore(String fileOrDirFullPath,
                                       boolean enablePDFcompression,
                                       float compressionFactor,
                                       boolean recursiveDir,
                                       int timeout)

Convert by means of PDFX a PDF file or recursively all PDF files in a directory (http://pdfx.cs.man.ac.uk/). Compression of PDF files images can be activated, specifying also a compression factor.

Parameters:

fileOrDirFullPath -

enablePDFcompression -

compressionFactor -

recursiveDir -

Returns:

The number of PDF files correctly converted and stored