OutputSource (PDFxStream API Reference)

All Known Subinterfaces:

Block, Document, Line, Page, Spaces, Span, Table, Word

All Known Implementing Classes:

PDFTextStream
```
public interface OutputSource
```
Since:

v4.0

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`pipe(OutputHandler handler)`	Equivalent to `pipe(OutputHandler, Direction)`, with a `Direction` of `Configuration#getBaseDirection()`.
`void`	`pipe(OutputHandler handler, Direction bd)`	Extracts all available text from this `OutputSource`, sending all PDF text events to the given `OutputHandler`, with the specified `Direction`.

- Method Detail
  - pipe
```
void pipe(OutputHandler handler)
   throws IOException
```
    Equivalent to pipe(OutputHandler, Direction), with a Direction of Configuration#getBaseDirection().
    
    Throws:
    
    IOException
  - pipe
```
void pipe(OutputHandler handler,
          Direction bd)
   throws IOException
```
    Extracts all available text from this OutputSource, sending all PDF text events to the given OutputHandler, with the specified Direction.
    
    If no special PDF text event handling is needed (i.e. you just want a straight text extract), then using an OutputTarget is recommended.
    
    Parameters:
    
    handler - an OutputHandler instance.
    
    bd - the Direction that should be used to disambiguate the order in which extracted text is emitted
    
    Throws:
    
    InsufficientLicenseException - if a license has been loaded, but that license does not include PDF.Feature.Text.
    
    IOException - if an error occurs during the extraction process
    
    See Also:
    
    OutputHandler, OutputTarget