Java: Apache PDFbox Extract highlighted text

Question

I am using Apache PDFbox library to extract the the highlighted text (i.e., with yellow background) from a PDF file. I am totally new to this library and don\'t know which c

Answer 1

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// PDF32000-2008
// 12.5.2 Annotation Dictionaries
// 12.5.6 Annotation Types
// 12.5.6.10 Text Markup Annotations
@SuppressWarnings({ "unchecked", "unused" })
public ArrayList getHighlightedText(String filePath, int pageNumber) throws IOException {
    ArrayList highlightedTexts = new ArrayList<>();
    // this is the in-memory representation of the PDF document.
    // this will load a document from a file.
    PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(filePath);
    // this represents all pages in a PDF document.
    List allPages =  document.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages();
    // this represents a single page in a PDF document.
    PDPage page = allPages.get(pageNumber);
    // get  annotation dictionaries
    List annotations = page.getAnnotations();

    for(int i=0; i 1) {
                    str = str.concat(highlightedText);
                } else {
                    str = highlightedText;
                }
            }
            highlightedTexts.add(str);
        }
    }
    document.close();

    return highlightedTexts;
}