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Android™ Requires Chilkat v11.7.0+

Code Blocks and Code Spans in PDF to Markdown

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Demonstrates how monospaced text is converted by the "markdown" operation: a monospaced block becomes a fenced code block and a monospaced run inside a sentence becomes a code span. Set "code" to false to treat it as ordinary text.

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// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

    //  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    //  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    //  The PDF used in this example is available at code_block.pdf

    CkPdf pdf = new CkPdf();
    success = pdf.LoadFile("qa_data/pdf/code_block.pdf");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, pdf.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    CkJsonObject json = new CkJsonObject();
    CkJsonObject jsonOut = new CkJsonObject();

    success = pdf.ExtractText("markdown",json,jsonOut);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, pdf.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    Log.i(TAG, "---- default (code: true) ----");
    Log.i(TAG, jsonOut.stringOf("markdown"));

    json.UpdateBool("code",false);
    success = pdf.ExtractText("markdown",json,jsonOut);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, pdf.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    Log.i(TAG, "---- code: false ----");
    Log.i(TAG, jsonOut.stringOf("markdown"));

    //  Sample output:

    //  ---- default (code: true) ----
    //  <!-- page 1 -->
    //  
    //  # Extracting Text
    //  
    //  Load the PDF and call `ExtractText` with the operation and an options object. The result is returned as JSON:
    //  
    //  ```
    //  new Pdf pdf;
    //  success = pdf.LoadFile("report.pdf");
    //  new JsonObject json;
    //  new JsonObject jsonOut;
    //  success = pdf.ExtractText("text",json,jsonOut);
    //  println jsonOut.StringOf("text");
    //  ```
    //  
    //  An empty options object extracts every page with the default clean-up. Set `pages` to limit the extraction.
    //  ---- code: false ----
    //  <!-- page 1 -->
    //  
    //  # Extracting Text
    //  
    //  Load the PDF and call ExtractText with the operation and an options object. The result is returned as JSON:
    //  
    //  new Pdf pdf; success = pdf.LoadFile("report.pdf"); new JsonObject json; new JsonObject jsonOut; success = pdf.ExtractText("text",json,jsonOut); println jsonOut.StringOf("text");
    //  
    //  An empty options object extracts every page with the default clean-up. Set pages to limit the extraction.

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}