de.citec.scie.pdf.structure

Class Paragraph

java.lang.Object

de.citec.scie.pdf.structure.LineSegment

de.citec.scie.pdf.structure.Paragraph

All Implemented Interfaces:

AbstractLineSegment

public class Paragraph
extends LineSegment

This represents a paragraph of text that is defined as a sequence of Text objects that syntactically were grouped in a paragraph.

Author:

Benjamin Paassen - bpaassen(at)techfak.uni-bielefeld.de

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
ArrayList<Text>	content This is the Text content of this Paragraph.

Fields inherited from class de.citec.scie.pdf.structure.LineSegment

begin, end

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Paragraph()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	equals(Object obj)
int	hashCode()
String	indexedToString(int currentIdx) Does the same as toString but also inserts the beginning and end index of each objects respective text representation to this objects attributes (which is retrievable by getBegin and getEnd).
String	toString() Converts this object to a string by going recursively through the underlying text objects and calling their respective toString methods.
String	toXML() Returns a XML representation of this paragraph by going recursively through the underlying text objects and calling their respective toXML methods.

Methods inherited from class de.citec.scie.pdf.structure.LineSegment

boundariesEqual, boundariesEqual, getBegin, getEnd, intersection, isValid, isValid, length, length, normalize, normalize, normalizedBounds, overlaps, overlaps, setBegin, setEnd, union

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

content

public final ArrayList<Text> content

This is the Text content of this Paragraph.

Constructor Detail

Paragraph

public Paragraph()

Method Detail

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object

equals

public boolean equals(Object obj)

Overrides:

equals in class Object

toString

public String toString()

Converts this object to a string by going recursively through the underlying text objects and calling their respective toString methods.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

a string showing the plain text content of this paragraph.

indexedToString

public String indexedToString(int currentIdx)

Does the same as toString but also inserts the beginning and end index of each objects respective text representation to this objects attributes (which is retrievable by getBegin and getEnd).

Parameters:

currentIdx - the current index in the plain text representation. If you are calling this as a user you should insert 0 here.

Returns:

the plainText representation of this Paragraph, same as for the toString method.

toXML

public String toXML()

Returns a XML representation of this paragraph by going recursively through the underlying text objects and calling their respective toXML methods.

Returns:

a string containing a XML representation of this paragraph.