Get colours from fonts in PDFBox

Question

I am trying to get the font colour from PDFBox and I seem to keep throwing an exception. Can someone help? The way I tried to obtain the colour was (page is the PDPage I obtained):

PDResources = page.getResources();
Iterable<COSName> fontNames = resources.getFontNames();
for (COSName fontName:fontNames)
   System.out.println("name: " + resources.getFont(fontName).getName() + 
                      "colour: " + resources.getColorSpace(fontName).getName());

This prints out the exception:

org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.MissingResourceException: Missing color space: F1

Could someone tell me how to properly get the colour of a font obtained in this manner?

Answer 1

Try PrintTextColors from the source code download:

/**
 * This is an example on how to get the colors of text. Note that this will not tell the background,
 * and will only work properly if the text is not overwritten later, and only if the text rendering
 * modes are 0, 1 or 2. In the PDF 32000 specification, please read 9.3.6 "Text Rendering Mode" to
 * know more. Mode 0 (FILL) is the default. Mode 1 (STROKE) will make glyphs look "hollow". Mode 2
 * (FILL_STROKE) will make glyphs look "fat".
 *
 * @author Ben Litchfield
 * @author Tilman Hausherr
 */
public class PrintTextColors extends PDFTextStripper
{
    /**
     * Instantiate a new PDFTextStripper object.
     *
     * @throws IOException If there is an error loading the properties.
     */
    public PrintTextColors() throws IOException
    {
        addOperator(new SetStrokingColorSpace());
        addOperator(new SetNonStrokingColorSpace());
        addOperator(new SetStrokingDeviceCMYKColor());
        addOperator(new SetNonStrokingDeviceCMYKColor());
        addOperator(new SetNonStrokingDeviceRGBColor());
        addOperator(new SetStrokingDeviceRGBColor());
        addOperator(new SetNonStrokingDeviceGrayColor());
        addOperator(new SetStrokingDeviceGrayColor());
        addOperator(new SetStrokingColor());
        addOperator(new SetStrokingColorN());
        addOperator(new SetNonStrokingColor());
        addOperator(new SetNonStrokingColorN());
    }

    /**
     * This will print the documents data.
     *
     * @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 != 1)
        {
            usage();
        }
        else
        {
            PDDocument document = null;
            try
            {
                document = PDDocument.load(new File(args[0]));

                PDFTextStripper stripper = new PrintTextColors();
                stripper.setSortByPosition(true);
                stripper.setStartPage(0);
                stripper.setEndPage(document.getNumberOfPages());

                Writer dummy = new OutputStreamWriter(new ByteArrayOutputStream());
                stripper.writeText(document, dummy);
            }
            finally
            {
                if (document != null)
                {
                    document.close();
                }
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void processTextPosition(TextPosition text)
    {
        super.processTextPosition(text);

        PDColor strokingColor = getGraphicsState().getStrokingColor();
        PDColor nonStrokingColor = getGraphicsState().getNonStrokingColor();
        String unicode = text.getUnicode();
        RenderingMode renderingMode = getGraphicsState().getTextState().getRenderingMode();
        System.out.println("Unicode:            " + unicode);
        System.out.println("Rendering mode:     " + renderingMode);
        System.out.println("Stroking color:     " + strokingColor);
        System.out.println("Non-Stroking color: " + nonStrokingColor);
        System.out.println("Non-Stroking color: " + nonStrokingColor);
        System.out.println();

        // See the PrintTextLocations for more attributes
    }

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