Extracting text from pdf file
Hi All
I want to extract only text from a pdf file.
I am trying to extrat text from a pdf file using PDFBox. But I am getting error. My code is like this:
* Main.java
* Created on den 10 september 2007, 23:01
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package extracttext;
import org.pdfbox.exceptions.InvalidPasswordException;
import org.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper;
//import java.awt.Rectangle;
//import java.util.List;
import org.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage;
public class Main {
/** Creates a new instance of Main */
public Main() {
* @param args the command line arguments
public static void main( String[] args ) throws Exception
int startPage = 1;
int endPage = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
PDDocument document = null;
try
document = PDDocument.load( "C:\\thesis\\fileread\\sim.pdf" );
if( document.isEncrypted() )
try
document.decrypt( "" );
catch( InvalidPasswordException e )
System.err.println( "Error: Document is encrypted with a password." );
System.exit( 1 );
PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFTextStripper();
stripper.setSortByPosition( true );
stripper.setStartPage( startPage );
stripper.setEndPage( endPage );
System.out.println("Text: " + stripper.getText(document));
finally
if( document != null )
document.close();
can anybody pls help me solving this problem
Regards,
UK
i get the following error message:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/fontbox/afm/FontMetric
at org.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.getAFM(PDFont.java:334)
at org.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDSimpleFont.getFontHeight(PDSimpleFont.java:104)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.showString(PDFStreamEngine.java:336)
at org.pdfbox.util.operator.ShowTextGlyph.process(ShowTextGlyph.java:80)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processOperator(PDFStreamEngine.java:452)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processSubStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:215)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:174)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.processPage(PDFTextStripper.java:336)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.processPages(PDFTextStripper.java:259)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.writeText(PDFTextStripper.java:216)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.getText(PDFTextStripper.java:149)
at extracttext.Main.main(Main.java:55)
Java Result: 1
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 1 second)
I would appreciate if you can please help me writing a java program that can extract only test from a pdf file
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