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/**
* dgd: com.lowagie.text.pdf.parser
*/
package com.lowagie.text.pdf.parser;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader;
/**
* @author dgd
*
*/
public interface TextAssemblyBuffer {
/**
* @return the text to render
*/
String getText();
/**
* @param reader
* pdfReader that knows about our document. (size, etc. available
* here).
* @param page
* which page are we extracting text from.
* @param assembler
* Builds result by accepting content from text components of
* various sorts.
* @param useMarkup Should we generate tagged text, or just plain text.
* @return the final text ready to concatenate into result string.
*/
FinalText getFinalText(PdfReader reader, int page,
TextAssembler assembler, boolean useMarkup);
/**
* We pass ourselves to the assembler, which is a visitor, so that it can
* accumulate information on this text depending on its type. The result is
* calculated by a final "assembly" phase, after accumulation is done. This
* is because we may have non-contiguous items in a PDF text stream.
*
* @param p
* the assembler that is visiting us.
* @param contextName Name of the surrounding markup element/"context" if
* we're generating tagged output.
*
* @see com.lowagie.text.pdf.parser.TextAssemblyBuffer#accumulate(com.lowagie.text.pdf.parser.TextAssembler, String)
*/
void accumulate(TextAssembler p, String contextName);
/**
* @param p
* we may pass ourselves to this assembler again during the final
* assembly process.
*/
void assemble(TextAssembler p);
}