All the documentation I can find seems to suggest I can only extract the entire file's content. But I need to extract pages individually. Do I need to write my own parser for that? Is there some obvious method that I am missing?
Actually Tika does handle pages (at least in pdf) by sending elements <div><p>
before page starts and </p></div>
after page ends. You can easily setup page count in your handler using this (just counting pages using only <p>
):
public abstract class MyContentHandler implements ContentHandler {
private String pageTag = "p";
protected int pageNumber = 0;
...
@Override
public void startElement (String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes atts) throws SAXException {
if (pageTag.equals(qName)) {
startPage();
}
}
@Override
public void endElement (String uri, String localName, String qName) throws SAXException {
if (pageTag.equals(qName)) {
endPage();
}
}
protected void startPage() throws SAXException {
pageNumber++;
}
protected void endPage() throws SAXException {
return;
}
...
}
When doing this with pdf you may run into the problem when parser doesn't send text lines in proper order - see Extracting text from PDF files with Apache Tika 0.9 (and PDFBox under the hood) on how to handle this.