Package core :: Package data :: Package parsers :: Module pdfParser :: Class pdfParser

Class pdfParser

This class parses pdf documents to find mails and URLs. It's based in the pyPdf library.

Author: Andres Riancho ( andres.riancho@gmail.com )

Instance Methods

__init__(self, httpResponse)

_preParse(self, document)

_parse(self, contentText)

getPDFContent(self, documentString)

getReferences(self)
Returns: A list of URL strings.

_returnEmptyList(self)
This method is called (see below) when the caller invokes one of:

getMetaTags(self)
This method is called (see below) when the caller invokes one of:

getMetaRedir(self)
This method is called (see below) when the caller invokes one of:

getComments(self)
This method is called (see below) when the caller invokes one of:

getForms(self)
This method is called (see below) when the caller invokes one of:

getReferencesOfTag(self)
This method is called (see below) when the caller invokes one of:

Inherited from abstractParser.abstractParser: findEmails, getEmails, getScripts

Inherited from abstractParser.abstractParser (private): _decodeString

Method Details

init(self, httpResponse)
(Constructor)

Overrides: abstractParser.abstractParser.__init__

getReferences(self)

Returns:: A list of URL strings.
Overrides: abstractParser.abstractParser.getReferences: (inherited documentation)

_returnEmptyList(self)

This method is called (see below) when the caller invokes one of:

getForms
getComments
getMetaRedir
getMetaTags
getReferencesOfTag

Returns:: Because we are a PDF document, we don't have the same things that a nice HTML document has, so we simply return an empty list.

getMetaTags(self)

This method is called (see below) when the caller invokes one of:

getForms
getComments
getMetaRedir
getMetaTags
getReferencesOfTag

Returns:: Because we are a PDF document, we don't have the same things that a nice HTML document has, so we simply return an empty list.
Overrides: abstractParser.abstractParser.getMetaTags

getMetaRedir(self)

This method is called (see below) when the caller invokes one of:

getForms
getComments
getMetaRedir
getMetaTags
getReferencesOfTag

Returns:: Because we are a PDF document, we don't have the same things that a nice HTML document has, so we simply return an empty list.
Overrides: abstractParser.abstractParser.getMetaRedir

getComments(self)

This method is called (see below) when the caller invokes one of:

getForms
getComments
getMetaRedir
getMetaTags
getReferencesOfTag

Returns:: Because we are a PDF document, we don't have the same things that a nice HTML document has, so we simply return an empty list.
Overrides: abstractParser.abstractParser.getComments

getForms(self)

This method is called (see below) when the caller invokes one of:

getForms
getComments
getMetaRedir
getMetaTags
getReferencesOfTag

Returns:: Because we are a PDF document, we don't have the same things that a nice HTML document has, so we simply return an empty list.
Overrides: abstractParser.abstractParser.getForms

getReferencesOfTag(self)

This method is called (see below) when the caller invokes one of:

getForms
getComments
getMetaRedir
getMetaTags
getReferencesOfTag

Returns:: Because we are a PDF document, we don't have the same things that a nice HTML document has, so we simply return an empty list.