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

Class PDFproxyConn

java.lang.Object

edu.upf.taln.dri.common.connector.proxy.PDFproxyConn

public class PDFproxyConn
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
PDFproxyConn()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static int	convertFilesAndStore(String fileOrDirFullPath, String tags, 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, String tags, int timeout)	Get an 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>	processPDF(String inputFilePath, String tags, 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

PDFproxyConn

public PDFproxyConn()

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:

processPDF

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

Get an 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,
                                       String tags,
                                       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 -

tags -

enablePDFcompression -

compressionFactor -

recursiveDir -

Returns:

The number of PDF files correctly converted and stored