high level representation of a single PDF page. Ties together the various low level classes in PDF::Reader and provides access to the various components of the page (text, images, fonts, etc) in convenient formats.
If you require access to the raw PDF objects for this page, you can access the Page dictionary via the #page_object accessor. You will need to use the objects accessor to help walk the page dictionary in any useful way.
a Hash-like object for storing cached data. Generally this is scoped to the current document and is used to avoid repeating expensive operations
lowlevel hash-like access to all objects in the underlying PDF
the raw PDF object that defines this page
creates a new page wrapper.
objects - an ObjectHash instance that wraps a PDF file
pagenum - an int specifying the page number to expose. 1 indexed.
# File lib/pdf/reader/page.rb, line 32 def initialize(objects, pagenum, options = {}) @objects, @pagenum = objects, pagenum @page_object = objects.deref(objects.page_references[pagenum - 1]) @cache = options[:cache] || {} unless @page_object.is_a?(::Hash) raise ArgumentError, "invalid page: #{pagenum}" end end
Returns the attributes that accompany this page, including attributes inherited from parents.
# File lib/pdf/reader/page.rb, line 57 def attributes @attributes ||= {}.tap { |hash| page_with_ancestors.reverse.each do |obj| hash.merge!(@objects.deref(obj)) end } end
return a friendly string representation of this page
# File lib/pdf/reader/page.rb, line 50 def inspect "<PDF::Reader::Page page: #{@pagenum}>" end
return the number of this page within the full document
# File lib/pdf/reader/page.rb, line 44 def number @pagenum end
returns the raw content stream for this page. This is plumbing, nothing to see here unless you’re a PDF nerd like me.
# File lib/pdf/reader/page.rb, line 106 def raw_content contents = objects.deref(@page_object[:Contents]) [contents].flatten.compact.map { |obj| objects.deref(obj) }.map { |obj| obj.unfiltered_data }.join(" ") end
returns the plain text content of this page encoded as UTF-8. Any characters that can’t be translated will be returned as a ▯
# File lib/pdf/reader/page.rb, line 68 def text receiver = PageTextReceiver.new walk(receiver) receiver.content end
processes the raw content stream for this page in sequential order and passes callbacks to the receiver objects.
This is mostly low level and you can probably ignore it unless you need access to something like the raw encoded text. For an example of how this can be used as a basis for higher level functionality, see the text() method
If someone was motivated enough, this method is intended to provide all the data required to faithfully render the entire page. If you find some required data isn’t available it’s a bug - let me know.
Many operators that generate callbacks will reference resources stored in the page header - think images, fonts, etc. To facilitate these operators, the first available callback is page=. If your receiver accepts that callback it will be passed the current PDF::Reader::Page object. Use the Page#resources method to grab any required resources.
It may help to think of each page as a self contained program made up of a set of instructions and associated resources. Calling walk() executes the program in the correct order and calls out to your implementation.
# File lib/pdf/reader/page.rb, line 98 def walk(*receivers) callback(receivers, :page=, [self]) content_stream(receivers, raw_content) end