Read a pdf file line by line

Hi
I am trying to read contents of a pdf file .I used pdfbox it worked but the problem ,is for large pdf files it throws OutofMemory Exception
so i want to know how to read a pdf file line by line using pdfbox or any other API's
Thanks

gkraju wrote:
It will work but
String x1= stripper.getText(doc);reads the whole document .so it will also throws exception if the file size is large.It might be an idea if you spent a few minutes considering the code fragment which was kindly posted. Your problem is that reading the whole file's text into memory uses up all the memory. Okay, that's a problem. So instead of whining here, why not consider what might fix that problem? The ridiculously obvious idea is to not read the whole file's text into memory. Can you figure out how to change the posted code to read, for example, only one page? If you can't figure that out then, really, perhaps you ought to consider doing something else instead of programming.

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