[task] Pdf transformation • bidji

Description

Pdft is pdf transformer task that allow to:

read datas from pdf file(s)
process datas using freemarker templates

Pdft task parameters

Attribute	Description	Value	Required
file	input file	.pdf	file or fileset
tofile	output file	.	tofile or todir
todir	output dir		no
template	freemarker template	.ftl	yes (or inner template)
overwrite	overwrite output file	true by default	no
ouputproperty	output property		no

Element	Description	Value	Required
parameter	custom param value	<parameter name="" value=""/>	no

* specific to pdf task

Usages

file2file

Use cases

	file2file	set2set	set2file	file2set
pdft	pdf2xml

Transform pdf to xml, see: file2file example.

$ tree pdft/
pdft/
|-- build.xml
|-- datas
|   |-- file1.pdf
|-- gen
|   |-- out.xml
`-- templates
    |-- pdf2xml.ftl

ant file - build.xml

<project name="usages" xmlns:bj="antlib:org.bidji.taskdefs">
  	<target name="pdf2xml" description="intersect pdf files">       
    	<bj:pdft file="datas/file1.pdf" tofile="gen/out.xml" template="templates/pdf2xml.ftl" overwrite="true"/>
	</target>
</project>

input files

file1.pdf

pdf2xml.ftl

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<document>
[#foreach page in pdf?api.pages()]
  <page id="${page.id()}">
    <title>${page.title()}</title>
	<content>${page.content()}</content>
  </page>
[/#foreach]
</document>