Read pdf using iText

Question

I am getting problem to read pdf files using iText in java. I can read only one page but when I go to second page it gives exception.I want to read all the pages of any pdf file.

PdfTextExtractor parser =new PdfTextExtractor(new PdfReader("C:/Text.pdf"));
parser.getTextFromPage(3);

I am using these lines and at second line gives exception.

Answer 1

when you say one page, do you mean the first page? you might be indexing the pages incorrectly? Without any more info it could be anything.

Answer 2

Your filename is wrong. Should be c:\ and not c:/

Answer 3

1. Try changing the file location. Sometimes OS does not allow file to be read from some system drives by other applications. Put somewhere in D: etc. I face this problem in Vista when reading files from desktop.

2. I in fact ran the same two lines of code on one of my PDF and it did print the text. Also make sure you have sufficient pages in the PDF. (3 pages or more) or try with parser.getTextFromPage(1) etc. to get content from other pages.

Answer 4

Are you re-constructing the parser and reader for each operation? You can do that, but it's not very efficient (there is a lot of overhead with creating a new PdfReader).