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Reputation: 15434

Extracting text from PDF file using pdfbox

I am trying to extract text from PDF file using pdfbox but not as a command line tool but inside my Java app. I am downloading pdf using jsoup.

res = Jsoup
.connect(host+action)
.ignoreContentType(true)
.data(data)
.cookies(cookies)
.method(Method.POST)
.timeout(20*1000)
.execute();

// prepare document
InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(res.bodyAsBytes()); 
PDDocument pdf = new PDDocument();
pdf.load(is,true);

// extract text
PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFTextStripper();
String text = stripper.getText(pdf);

// print extracted text
System.out.println(text);

This code prints just empty line. When I do this:

System.out.println(res.body());

it prints the pdf file to output like this:

%PDF-1.4
%����
6 0 obj
<<
/Filter /FlateDecode
/Length 1869
>>
stream
x��X�n��

...

<<
/Size 28
/Info 27 0 R
/Root 26 0 R
>>
startxref
20632
%%EOF

So I am sure that pdf in downloaded correctly - just this PDF stripper doesnt work...

---------------------------------------------- edit

this problem is solved - working code is here http://thottingal.in/blog/2009/06/24/pdfbox-extract-text-from-pdf/

Upvotes: 4

Views: 15997

Answers (1)

Brian Tompsett - 汤莱恩
Brian Tompsett - 汤莱恩

Reputation: 5883

(Question answered in the comments. See Question with no answers, but issue solved in the comments (or extended in chat) )

@WeloSefer wrote:

maybe this can help you get started ... I have never worked with jsoup nor pdfbox so I am no help but I sure will try pdfbox since I've been testing itextpdf reader for extracting texts.

The OP wrote:

Thanks, that is what I was looking for - it works now :) this problem is solved - working code is here http://thottingal.in/blog/2009/06/24/pdfbox-extract-text-from-pdf/

Upvotes: 2

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