edu.esprit.filereader.PdfReader.java Source code

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package edu.esprit.filereader;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.io.RandomAccessFile;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripper;

/**
 *
 * @author Houssem
 */
public class PdfReader {

    private PDFParser parser;
    private PDFTextStripper pdfStripper;
    private PDDocument pdDoc;
    private COSDocument cosDoc;

    private String Text;
    private String filePath;
    private File file;

    public PdfReader() {

    }

    public String ToText() throws IOException {
        this.pdfStripper = null;
        this.pdDoc = null;
        this.cosDoc = null;

        file = new File(filePath);
        parser = new PDFParser(new RandomAccessFile(file, "r"));

        parser.parse();
        cosDoc = parser.getDocument();
        pdfStripper = new PDFTextStripper();
        pdDoc = new PDDocument(cosDoc);
        pdDoc.getNumberOfPages();
        pdfStripper.setStartPage(1);
        pdfStripper.setEndPage(10);

        // reading text from page 1 to 10
        // if you want to get text from full pdf file use this code
        // pdfStripper.setEndPage(pdDoc.getNumberOfPages());
        Text = pdfStripper.getText(pdDoc);
        return Text;
    }

    public void setFilePath(String filePath) {
        this.filePath = filePath;
    }

}