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Hi,

Am 14.08.2013 11:17, schrieb Axel Rose:
> Hello all,
>
> has anybody a working solution or a guide for me how to achieve this:
>
> Given a COSDictionary object how would I get a recursive text dump of
> all its subobject?
>
> I tried something like:
>
>    PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load(file);
>    PDDocumentCatalog catalog = doc.getDocumentCatalog();
>    List<PDPage> allPages = catalog.getAllPages();
>    for (PDPage page : allPages) {
>      COSDictionary pageDict = page.getCOSDictionary();
>      for (Entry<COSName, COSBase> entry : pageDict.entrySet()) {
>        if (value instanceof COSArray)
>          // process array
>        else if (value instanceof COSString)
>          // process String
>        else if (value instanceof COSObject)
>          // stuck
>      }
>    }
>
> I'm stuck how to recurse into the COSObject.
Try something like this to get the encapsulated object:

COSBase baseObject = ((COSObject)value).getObject();

>
> pageDict.toString() gives me some overview:
>
> COSDictionary{
>    (COSName{Annots}:COSArray{[COSObject{19, 0}, COSObject{20, 0}]})
>
> but also doesn't go deeper into the "Annots" object.
>
>
> Thanks for your help
Do you need the information for a further process or are you just interested to
see those information for debugging purposes or something similar? Maybe you
should try the PDFDebugger.

>
> Axel

BR
Andreas Lehmk�hler