How to get font color using pdfbox

Question

I am trying to extract text with all information from the pdf using pdfbox. I got all the information i want, except color. I tried different ways to get the fontcolor (incl

Answer 1

I found some code in one of my maintenance program.
I do not know it works for you or not, please try It. Also check out this link http://pdfbox.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/pdfbox/pdmodel/common/class-use/PDStream.html

It may help you

PDDocument doc = null;
try {
    doc = PDDocument.load("C:/Path/To/Pdf/Sample.pdf");
    PDFStreamEngine engine = new PDFStreamEngine(ResourceLoader.loadProperties("org/apache/pdfbox/resources/PageDrawer.properties"));
    PDPage page = (PDPage)doc.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages().get(0);
    engine.processStream(page, page.findResources(), page.getContents().getStream());
    PDGraphicsState graphicState = engine.getGraphicsState();
    System.out.println(graphicState.getStrokingColor().getColorSpace().getName());
    float colorSpaceValues[] = graphicState.getStrokingColor().getColorSpaceValue();
    for (float c : colorSpaceValues) {
        System.out.println(c * 255);
    }
}
finally {
    if (doc != null) {
        doc.close();
    }