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Sample JavaScript code for using PDFTron SDK to explore the logical structure and content of a tagged PDF file, then dumps the information to the console window. In tagged PDF files, StructTree acts as a central repository for information related to a PDF document's logical structure. The tree consists of StructElement-s and ContentItem-s which are leaf nodes of the structure tree. Learn more about our JavaScript PDF Library and PDF Parsing & Content Extraction Library.
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//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Copyright (c) 2001-2023 by Apryse Software Inc. All Rights Reserved.
// Consult legal.txt regarding legal and license information.
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// This sample explores the structure and content of a tagged PDF document and dumps
// the structure information to the console window.
//
// In tagged PDF documents StructTree acts as a central repository for information
// related to a PDF document's logical structure. The tree consists of StructElement-s
// and ContentItem-s which are leaf nodes of the structure tree.
//
// The sample can be extended to access and extract the marked-content elements such
// as text and images.
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(exports => {
exports.runLogicalStructureTest = () => {
const PDFNet = exports.Core.PDFNet;
const PrintAndIndent = (printState, indent) => {
if (printState.str) {
let indentStr = '';
const lastIndent = printState.indent;
for (let i = 0; i < lastIndent; ++i) {
indentStr += ' ';
}
console.log(indentStr + printState.str);
}
printState.str = '';
printState.indent = indent;
};
// Used in code snippet 1.
const ProcessStructElement = async (element, indent, printState) => {
if (!(await element.isValid())) {
return;
}
// Print out the type and title info, if any.
PrintAndIndent(printState, indent++);
printState.str += 'Type: ' + (await element.getType());
if (await element.hasTitle()) {
printState.str += '. Title: ' + (await element.getTitle());
}
const num = await element.getNumKids();
for (let i = 0; i < num; ++i) {
// Check is the kid is a leaf node (i.e. it is a ContentItem).
if (await element.isContentItem(i)) {
const cont = await element.getAsContentItem(i);
const type = await cont.getType();
const page = await cont.getPage();
PrintAndIndent(printState, indent);
printState.str += 'Content Item. Part of page #' + (await page.getIndex());
PrintAndIndent(printState, indent);
switch (type) {
case PDFNet.ContentItem.Type.e_MCID:
case PDFNet.ContentItem.Type.e_MCR:
printState.str += 'MCID: ' + (await cont.getMCID());
break;
case PDFNet.ContentItem.Type.e_OBJR:
{
printState.str += 'OBJR ';
const refObj = await cont.getRefObj();
if (refObj) {
printState.str += '- Referenced Object#: ' + refObj.getObjNum();
}
}
break;
default:
break;
}
} else {
// the kid is another StructElement node.
await ProcessStructElement(await element.getAsStructElem(i), indent, printState);
}
}
};
// Used in code snippet 2.
const ProcessElements = async (reader, printState) => {
let element;
while ((element = await reader.next())) {
// Read page contents
// In this sample we process only paths & text, but the code can be
// extended to handle any element type.
const type = await element.getType();
if (type === PDFNet.Element.Type.e_path || type === PDFNet.Element.Type.e_text || type === PDFNet.Element.Type.e_path) {
switch (type) {
case PDFNet.Element.Type.e_path: // Process path ...
printState.str += '\nPATH: ';
break;
case PDFNet.Element.Type.e_text: // Process text ...
printState.str += '\nTEXT: ' + (await element.getTextString()) + '\n';
break;
case PDFNet.Element.Type.e_form: // Process form XObjects
printState.str += '\nFORM XObject: ';
// reader.formBegin();
// await ProcessElements(reader);
// reader.end();
break;
}
// Check if the element is associated with any structural element.
// Content items are leaf nodes of the structure tree.
const structParent = await element.getParentStructElement();
if (await structParent.isValid()) {
// Print out the parent structural element's type, title, and object number.
printState.str += ' Type: ' + (await structParent.getType()) + ', MCID: ' + (await element.getStructMCID());
if (await structParent.hasTitle()) {
printState.str += '. Title: ' + (await structParent.getTitle());
}
printState.str += ', Obj#: ' + (await (await structParent.getSDFObj()).getObjNum());
}
}
}
};
// Used in code snippet 3.
const ProcessElements2 = async (reader, mcidPageMap) => {
let element;
while ((element = await reader.next())) {
// Read page contents
// In this sample we process only text, but the code can be extended
// to handle paths, images, or any other Element type.
const mcid = await element.getStructMCID();
if (mcid >= 0 && (await element.getType()) === PDFNet.Element.Type.e_text) {
const val = await element.getTextString();
if (mcid in mcidPageMap) {
mcidPageMap[mcid] += val;
} else {
mcidPageMap[mcid] = val;
}
}
}
};
// Used in code snippet 3.
const ProcessStructElement2 = async (element, mcidDocMap, indent, printState) => {
if (!(await element.isValid())) {
return;
}
// Print out the type and title info, if any.
PrintAndIndent(printState, indent);
printState.str += '<' + (await element.getType());
if (await element.hasTitle()) {
printState.str += ' title="' + (await element.getTitle()) + '"';
}
printState.str += '>';
const num = await element.getNumKids();
for (let i = 0; i < num; ++i) {
if (await element.isContentItem(i)) {
const cont = await element.getAsContentItem(i);
if ((await cont.getType()) === PDFNet.ContentItem.Type.e_MCID) {
const pageNum = await (await cont.getPage()).getIndex();
const mcidPageMap = mcidDocMap[pageNum];
if (mcidPageMap) {
const mcid = await cont.getMCID();
if (mcid in mcidPageMap) {
printState.str += mcidPageMap[mcid];
}
}
}
} else {
// the kid is another StructElement node.
await ProcessStructElement2(await element.getAsStructElem(i), mcidDocMap, indent + 1, printState);
}
}
PrintAndIndent(printState, indent);
printState.str += '</' + (await element.getType()) + '>';
};
const main = async () => {
// Relative path to the folder containing test files.
const inputPath = '../TestFiles/';
const printState = { str: '' };
try {
// Extract logical structure from a PDF document
const doc = await PDFNet.PDFDoc.createFromURL(inputPath + 'tagged.pdf');
doc.initSecurityHandler();
let reader = null;
let tree = null;
console.log('____________________________________________________________');
console.log('Sample 1 - Traverse logical structure tree...');
tree = await doc.getStructTree();
if (await tree.isValid()) {
console.log('Document has a StructTree root.');
for (let i = 0, numKids = await tree.getNumKids(); i < numKids; ++i) {
// Recursively get structure info for all child elements.
await ProcessStructElement(await tree.getKid(i), 0, printState);
}
} else {
console.log('This document does not contain any logical structure.');
}
PrintAndIndent(printState, 0);
console.log('Done 1.');
console.log('____________________________________________________________');
console.log('Sample 2 - Get parent logical structure elements from');
console.log('layout elements.');
reader = await PDFNet.ElementReader.create();
for (let itr = await doc.getPageIterator(); await itr.hasNext(); itr.next()) {
reader.beginOnPage(await itr.current());
await ProcessElements(reader, printState);
reader.end();
}
PrintAndIndent(printState, 0);
console.log('Done 2.');
console.log('____________________________________________________________');
console.log("Sample 3 - 'XML style' extraction of PDF logical structure and page content.");
{
const mcidDocMap = {};
for (let itr = await doc.getPageIterator(); await itr.hasNext(); itr.next()) {
const page = await itr.current();
reader.beginOnPage(page);
const pageNum = await page.getIndex();
const pageMcidMap = {};
mcidDocMap[pageNum] = pageMcidMap;
await ProcessElements2(reader, pageMcidMap);
reader.end();
}
tree = await doc.getStructTree();
if (await tree.isValid()) {
for (let i = 0, numKids = await tree.getNumKids(); i < numKids; ++i) {
await ProcessStructElement2(await tree.getKid(i), mcidDocMap, 0, printState);
}
}
}
PrintAndIndent(printState, 0);
console.log('Done 3.');
const docBuffer = await doc.saveMemoryBuffer(0);
saveBufferAsPDFDoc(docBuffer, 'bookmark.pdf');
} catch (err) {
console.log(err);
}
};
// add your own license key as the second parameter, e.g. PDFNet.runWithCleanup(main, 'YOUR_LICENSE_KEY')
PDFNet.runWithCleanup(main);
};
})(window);
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