ExtractTextFromPdf.java Source code

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/**
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 * @author Kavya Gupta
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import java.io.*;

import org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.io.RandomAccessRead;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripper;

public class ExtractTextFromPdf {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        PDFParser parser = null;
        PDDocument pdDoc = null;
        COSDocument cosDoc = null;
        PDFTextStripper pdfStripper;

        String parsedText;
        String fileName = "C:/Users/Kavya Gupta/Desktop/Texas_Title.pdf";
        File file = new File(fileName);
        try {
            byte data[] = new byte[1024];
            ((RandomAccessRead) file).read(data, 0, 1024);

            pdDoc = PDDocument.load(new File(fileName));
            pdfStripper = new PDFTextStripper();
            parsedText = pdfStripper.getText(pdDoc);
            System.out.println(parsedText.replaceAll("[^A-Za-z0-9. ]+", ""));
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            try {
                if (cosDoc != null)
                    cosDoc.close();
                if (pdDoc != null)
                    pdDoc.close();
            } catch (Exception e1) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }
}