POITextExtractor (The Adobe Experience Manager SDK 2022.11.9850.20221116T162329Z-220900)

java.lang.Object
- org.apache.poi.extractor.POITextExtractor

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Closeable, java.lang.AutoCloseable

Direct Known Subclasses:

POIOLE2TextExtractor, POIXMLTextExtractor
```
public abstract class POITextExtractor
extends java.lang.Object
implements java.io.Closeable
```
Common Parent for Text Extractors of POI Documents. You will typically find the implementation of a given format's text extractor under org.apache.poi.[format].extractor .

See Also:

ExcelExtractor, PowerPointExtractor, VisioTextExtractor, WordExtractor

Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor Description

POITextExtractor()

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`close()`	Allows to free resources of the Extractor as soon as it is not needed any more.
`abstract java.lang.Object`	`getDocument()`
`abstract POITextExtractor`	`getMetadataTextExtractor()`	Returns another text extractor, which is able to output the textual content of the document metadata / properties, such as author and title.
`abstract java.lang.String`	`getText()`	Retrieves all the text from the document.
`void`	`setFilesystem(java.io.Closeable fs)`	Used to ensure file handle cleanup.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Constructor Detail
  - POITextExtractor
```
public POITextExtractor()
```
- Method Detail
  - getText
```
public abstract java.lang.String getText()
```
    Retrieves all the text from the document. How cells, paragraphs etc are separated in the text is implementation specific - see the javadocs for a specific project for details.
    
    Returns:
    
    All the text from the document
  - getMetadataTextExtractor
```
public abstract POITextExtractor getMetadataTextExtractor()
```
    Returns another text extractor, which is able to output the textual content of the document metadata / properties, such as author and title.
    
    Returns:
    
    the metadata and text extractor
  - setFilesystem
```
public void setFilesystem(java.io.Closeable fs)
```
    Used to ensure file handle cleanup.
    
    Parameters:
    
    fs - filesystem to close
  - close
```
public void close()
           throws java.io.IOException
```
    Allows to free resources of the Extractor as soon as it is not needed any more. This may include closing open file handles and freeing memory. The Extractor cannot be used after close has been called.
    
    Specified by:
    
    close in interface java.lang.AutoCloseable
    
    Specified by:
    
    close in interface java.io.Closeable
    
    Throws:
    
    java.io.IOException
  - getDocument
```
public abstract java.lang.Object getDocument()
```
    Returns:
    
    the processed document