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    The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. This artefact contains examples on how the library can be used.

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package org.apache.pdfbox.examples.util;

import java.io.OutputStream;
import org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSName;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFStreamParser;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdfwriter.ContentStreamWriter;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.common.PDStream;
import org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.operator.Operator;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * This is an example on how to remove all text from PDF document.
 *
 * @author Ben Litchfield
 */
public final class RemoveAllText
{
    /**
     * Default constructor.
     */
    private RemoveAllText()
    {
        //example class should not be instantiated
    }

    /**
     * This will remove all text from a PDF document.
     *
     * @param args The command line arguments.
     *
     * @throws IOException If there is an error parsing the document.
     */
    public static void main( String[] args ) throws IOException
    {
        if( args.length != 2 )
        {
            usage();
        }
        else
        {
            PDDocument document = null;
            try
            {
                document = PDDocument.load( new File(args[0]) );
                if( document.isEncrypted() )
                {
                    System.err.println( "Error: Encrypted documents are not supported for this example." );
                    System.exit( 1 );
                }
                for( PDPage page : document.getPages() )
                {
                    PDFStreamParser parser = new PDFStreamParser(page);
                    parser.parse();
                    List tokens = parser.getTokens();
                    List newTokens = new ArrayList();
                    for (Object token : tokens)
                    {
                        if( token instanceof Operator)
                        {
                            Operator op = (Operator)token;
                            if( op.getName().equals( "TJ") || op.getName().equals( "Tj" ))
                            {
                                //remove the one argument to this operator
                                newTokens.remove( newTokens.size() -1 );
                                continue;
                            }
                        }
                        newTokens.add( token );
                    }
                    PDStream newContents = new PDStream( document );
                    OutputStream out = newContents.createOutputStream(COSName.FLATE_DECODE);
                    ContentStreamWriter writer = new ContentStreamWriter( out );
                    writer.writeTokens( newTokens );
                    out.close();
                    page.setContents( newContents );
                }
                document.save( args[1] );
            }
            finally
            {
                if( document != null )
                {
                    document.close();
                }
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * This will print the usage for this document.
     */
    private static void usage()
    {
        System.err.println( "Usage: java " + RemoveAllText.class.getName() + "  " );
    }

}
    
    
    
    

    




    
    
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