What is the easiest way to get the text (words) or a PDF doc as a one long String or array of Strings.
I have tried pdfbox but that is not working for me.
I thought iText didn't do text extraction? It's more for building PDFs. Can you post how you're using it?
Sam Barnum
2009-11-05 15:52:28
iText does have text extraction. For example, the following code extracts texts from page 3 of the input pdf.PdfTextExtractor parser =new PdfTextExtractor(new PdfReader("C:/Text.pdf"));parser.getTextFromPage(3);
Kushal Paudyal
2009-11-05 16:28:29
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JPedal and Multivalent also offer text extraction in Java or you could access xpdf using Runtime.exec
mark stephens
2009-11-05 07:44:11
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PDFBox barfs on many newer PDFs, especially those with embedded PNG images.
I was very impressed with PDFTextStream
Sam Barnum
2009-11-05 15:53:01
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use iText. The following snippet for example will extract the text.
PdfTextExtractor parser =new PdfTextExtractor(new PdfReader("C:/Text.pdf"));
parser.getTextFromPage(3);
Kushal Paudyal
2009-11-05 16:29:47