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PDFDocMemory

Sample Java code for using Apryse SDK to read/write a PDF document from/to memory buffer. This is useful for applications that work with dynamic PDFdocuments that don't need to be saved/read from a disk. Learn more about our Android SDK.

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Copyright (c) 2001-2019 by PDFTron Systems Inc. All Rights Reserved.
// Consult legal.txt regarding legal and license information.
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package com.pdftron.android.pdfnetsdksamples.samples;

import com.pdftron.android.pdfnetsdksamples.OutputListener;
import com.pdftron.android.pdfnetsdksamples.PDFNetSample;
import com.pdftron.android.pdfnetsdksamples.R;
import com.pdftron.android.pdfnetsdksamples.util.Utils;
import com.pdftron.common.PDFNetException;
import com.pdftron.filters.FilterReader;
import com.pdftron.filters.MappedFile;
import com.pdftron.pdf.Element;
import com.pdftron.pdf.ElementReader;
import com.pdftron.pdf.ElementWriter;
import com.pdftron.pdf.PDFDoc;
import com.pdftron.pdf.Page;
import com.pdftron.pdf.PageIterator;
import com.pdftron.sdf.SDFDoc;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class PDFDocMemoryTest extends PDFNetSample {

	private static OutputListener mOutputListener;

	private static ArrayList<String> mFileList = new ArrayList<>();

    public PDFDocMemoryTest() {
        setTitle(R.string.sample_pdfdocmemory_title);
        setDescription(R.string.sample_pdfdocmemory_description);
    }

	@Override
	public void run(OutputListener outputListener) {
		super.run(outputListener);
		mOutputListener = outputListener;
		mFileList.clear();
		printHeader(outputListener);


        // The following sample illustrates how to read/write a PDF document from/to
        // a memory buffer.  This is useful for applications that work with dynamic PDF
        // documents that don't need to be saved/read from a disk.
        try {
            // Read a PDF document in a memory buffer.
            MappedFile file = new MappedFile((Utils.getAssetTempFile(INPUT_PATH + "tiger.pdf").getAbsolutePath()));
            long file_sz = file.fileSize();

            FilterReader file_reader = new FilterReader(file);

            byte[] mem = new byte[(int) file_sz];

            long bytes_read = file_reader.read(mem);
            try (PDFDoc doc = new PDFDoc(mem)) {

                doc.initSecurityHandler();
                int num_pages = doc.getPageCount();

                ElementWriter writer = new ElementWriter();
                ElementReader reader = new ElementReader();
                Element element;

                // Create a duplicate of every page but copy only path objects

                for (int i = 1; i <= num_pages; ++i) {
                    PageIterator itr = doc.getPageIterator(2 * i - 1);
                    Page current = itr.next();
                    reader.begin(current);
                    Page new_page = doc.pageCreate(current.getMediaBox());
                    doc.pageInsert(itr, new_page);

                    writer.begin(new_page);
                    while ((element = reader.next()) != null)    // Read page contents
                    {
                        //if (element.getType() == Element.e_path)
                        writer.writeElement(element);
                    }

                    writer.end();
                    reader.end();
                }

                doc.save(Utils.createExternalFile("doc_memory_edit.pdf", mFileList).getAbsolutePath(), SDFDoc.SaveMode.REMOVE_UNUSED, null);

                // Save the document to a memory buffer.

                byte[] buf = doc.save(SDFDoc.SaveMode.REMOVE_UNUSED, null);
                // doc.Save(buf, buf_sz, Doc::e_linearized, NULL);

                // Write the contents of the buffer to the disk
                {
                    File outfile = new File(Utils.createExternalFile("doc_memory_edit.txt", mFileList).getAbsolutePath());
                    // output "doc_memory_edit.txt"
                    FileOutputStream fop = new FileOutputStream(outfile);
                    if (!outfile.exists()) {
                        outfile.createNewFile();
                    }
                    fop.write(buf);
                    fop.flush();
                    fop.close();
                }

                // Read some data from the file stored in memory
                reader.begin(doc.getPage(1));
                while ((element = reader.next()) != null) {
                    if (element.getType() == Element.e_path) mOutputListener.print("Path, ");
                }
                reader.end();
                
                mOutputListener.println("\n\nDone. Result saved in doc_memory_edit.pdf and doc_memory_edit.txt ...");
            }
        }
        catch (PDFNetException e)
        {
            mOutputListener.printError(e.getStackTrace());
            mOutputListener.printError(e.getStackTrace());
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            mOutputListener.printError(e.getStackTrace());
        }

		for (String file : mFileList) {
			addToFileList(file);
		}
		printFooter(outputListener);
	}

}