Comments on Techtalks: PDF Text Parser: Converting PDF to Text in Java us...

thanx sir it help alot

2012-01-10T22:22:19.679-08:00

thanx sir it help alot

Works great thanks. I am using pdfbox 1.6.0 there...

2012-01-07T08:47:02.456-08:00

Works great thanks.

I am using pdfbox 1.6.0 there is a class ExtractText. It does the same thing but a lot simpler.

ExtractText.main(new String[]{"your pdf.pdf"});

It strips everything and gives you a text file.

Respected Sir, I need to convert a Pdf containing ...

2011-12-26T05:40:54.764-08:00

Respected Sir,
I need to convert a Pdf containing hyperlink to a html,in which the hyperlink should be displayed in the html and on click of that page should be redirected to url specified.While extracting the Pdf if I can parse the hyperlink in such a way so that I can identify that the converted text is hyperlink then my job will be done.
If you have any solution please reply me at this email: gaurav.das@saggezza.com

Thanks in advance

Hello guys, I have small problem when trying to re...

2011-11-01T06:03:20.049-07:00

Hello guys, I have small problem when trying to read PDF file, I get this:

Past v vismaz divas probl mas, kas ir j risina programm t jiem, t s ir plaša projekta
funkcionalit te un t izveides laiks.

in place of:

Pastāv vismaz divas problēmas, kas ir jārisina programmētājiem, tās ir plaša projekta
funkcionalitāte un tā izveides laiks.

Can someone tell me, how can I add other encodings to text Parser?

Thank you very much!

2011-10-29T21:40:24.864-07:00

Thank you very much!

There should be a fontbox library added into class...

2011-09-20T00:19:34.793-07:00

There should be a fontbox library added into classpath

Hi Prasanna Seshadri Thanks for this post. I ca...

2011-07-28T22:48:35.008-07:00

Hi Prasanna Seshadri

Thanks for this post. I can covert pdf using this code but getting lots of null null character

Can anyone suggest me?

out put ..
Interest nullearinnull loans and
nullorronullinnulls and interest free loans 1nullnull21null 1nullnull2nullnull 11null1nullnull nullnullnullnull1 3nullnull 10null nullnullnullnullnull2
nullinance leases 2null0 2nullnull 13null null null null nullnull3
Trade and other payanullles 3nullnullnull3null 1nullnull null null null null 3nullnullnull32
null1nullnullnull3 1nullnullnull0null 11null32null nullnullnullnull1 3nullnull 10null null3null10null
The tanullle nullelonull summarises the maturity profile of the nullompanynulls financial lianullilities nullincludinnull trade and other payanulllesnull at 30 April 2010 and
30 April 200null nullased on contractual undiscounted paymentsnull
Contractual cash nullows
nullithin
one year

this program runs great on me. Thanks! However I c...

2011-07-28T13:27:19.963-07:00

this program runs great on me. Thanks!
However I can not extract any filled-in text in my PDF file. The filled-in text are all missing, so essentially I got a blank PDF converted in text file.
Has anyone experienced the same and what solution you have to get around it?
Thanks a million.!

Wei

Hello dear, I face a problem like the folowing sni...

2011-07-06T00:19:54.305-07:00

Hello dear, I face a problem like the folowing snippet. I use same jar and jdk as you suggest. But face the following error. There is any suggestion for this. Thank you. I try to extract bangla text from pdf file. Any suggestion? Please help.

G:\PDFBOX>javac PDFTextParser.java

G:\PDFBOX>java PDFTextParser book.pdf test.txt
Parsing text from PDF file book.pdf....
An exception occured in parsing the PDF Document.
org.pdfbox.exceptions.WrappedIOException
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.(PDFStreamEngine.java:128)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.(PDFTextStripper.java:119)
at PDFTextParser.pdftoText(PDFTextParser.java:59)
at PDFTextParser.main(PDFTextParser.java:102)
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.(PDFStreamEngine.java:117)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.(PDFTextStripper.java:119)
at PDFTextParser.pdftoText(PDFTextParser.java:59)
at PDFTextParser.main(PDFTextParser.java:102)
PDF to Text Conversion failed.

Hi, I need help develop a tool which can compare ...

2011-06-20T12:51:02.746-07:00

Hi,

I need help develop a tool which can compare two pdf files and highlight the non-matched content. Could you please suggest me the process how to do it.

Please do reply me.

Thanks in advance.

I want to extract the font size of the text...as a...

2011-06-20T08:24:16.916-07:00

I want to extract the font size of the text...as a single line contains two different fonts...

Looks like your jar doesn't have the class jav...

2011-06-18T22:30:52.334-07:00

Looks like your jar doesn't have the class java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/fontbox/afm/AFMParser

Use the version of PDFBox mentioned in this article.

hii.. i am avinash... i am using your code in my...

2011-06-18T20:03:46.423-07:00

hii..
i am avinash...
i am using your code in my program..but it raises some exceptions..can u tell me how to solve these..exceptions...
inform me as early as possible....

Parsing text from PDF file c:/simple.pdf....
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/fontbox/afm/AFMParser
at org.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.getAFM(PDFont.java:350)
at org.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDSimpleFont.getFontHeight(PDSimpleFont.java:104)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.showString(PDFStreamEngine.java:336)
at org.pdfbox.util.operator.ShowTextGlyph.process(ShowTextGlyph.java:80)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processOperator(PDFStreamEngine.java:452)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processSubStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:215)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:174)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.processPage(PDFTextStripper.java:336)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.processPages(PDFTextStripper.java:259)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.writeText(PDFTextStripper.java:216)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.getText(PDFTextStripper.java:149)
at javaapplication12.PDFTextParser.pdftoText(Main.java:54)
at javaapplication12.Main.main(Main.java:97)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.fontbox.afm.AFMParser
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
... 13 more

thank u...

hiiiii.... i am avinash... i am using your code in...

2011-06-18T20:01:35.371-07:00

hiiiii....
i am avinash...
i am using your code in my program...but it shows some errors can u tell me how to solve these error....pls tell me as soon as possible..very urgent...

Parsing text from PDF file c:/simple.pdf....
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/fontbox/afm/AFMParser
at org.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.getAFM(PDFont.java:350)
at org.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDSimpleFont.getFontHeight(PDSimpleFont.java:104)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.showString(PDFStreamEngine.java:336)
at org.pdfbox.util.operator.ShowTextGlyph.process(ShowTextGlyph.java:80)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processOperator(PDFStreamEngine.java:452)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processSubStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:215)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:174)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.processPage(PDFTextStripper.java:336)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.processPages(PDFTextStripper.java:259)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.writeText(PDFTextStripper.java:216)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.getText(PDFTextStripper.java:149)
at javaapplication12.PDFTextParser.pdftoText(Main.java:54)
at javaapplication12.Main.main(Main.java:97)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.fontbox.afm.AFMParser
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
... 13 more

..thank u....

It works with following commands: compile: javac ...

2011-06-12T09:20:50.447-07:00

It works with following commands:

compile:
javac -classpath ./PDFBox-0.7.3/lib/PDFBox-0.7.3.jar:/ PDFTextParser.java

execute:
java -classpath ../PDFBox-0.7.3/lib/PDFBox-0.7.3.jar:../PDFBox-0.7.3/external/bcmail-jdk14-132.jar:../PDFBox-0.7.3/external/bcprov-jdk14-132.jar:../PDFBox-0.7.3external/checkstyle-all-4.2.jar:../PDFBox-0.7.3external/junit.jar:../PDFBox-0.7.3external/lucene-demos-2.0.0.jar:../PDFBox-0.7.3/external/ant.jar:../PDFBox-0.7.3/external/FontBox-0.1.0-dev.jar:../PDFBox-0.7.3/external/lucene-core-2.0.0.jar:. PDFTextParser ECN\ 001\ $LDN120508$.pdf kernelsource1.txt

Jani Verkkomäki

Hi to all For error message: Exception in thread ...

2011-05-23T07:02:25.713-07:00

Hi to all

For error message:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser.(BaseParser.java:58)

jar commons-logging-x.x.x.jar miss
You can find it here:
http://commons.apache.org/logging/download_logging.cgi

Thanks for your blog. I have a problem extracting ...

2011-05-23T05:09:44.718-07:00

Thanks for your blog. I have a problem extracting text, the bold letters in the pdf file goes to the end of the corresponding line. I have tried by setting pdfTextStripper.setSortByPosition(true), but it makes some other contents misplaced. Is there any other options to make this work?

I want to write text to PDF file with position x,y...

2011-05-10T01:37:13.058-07:00

I want to write text to PDF file with position x,y,width and height as we do it for read using objTextStripperbyArea.getTextForRegion.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoC...

2011-05-09T07:14:30.995-07:00

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser.(BaseParser.java:58)
at de.fhwedel.swp.indexier06.Main.main(Main.java:188)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
... 2 more

I dont know what the program want???

For people who are reporting compilation errors, i...

2011-03-24T11:40:22.107-07:00

For people who are reporting compilation errors, if you follow the above procedure as it is it should work fine, please make sure that the packages you use are also the ones I used to compile, the jars may have changed with new versions.

am using netbeans 6.9...pls help me know where to ...

2011-01-11T21:31:01.351-08:00

am using netbeans 6.9...pls help me know where to include the jar files , to find the jar files in pdfbox library and set the external directory to the classpath

Thanks a lot buddy..how can we use the command lin...

2010-12-21T00:18:15.071-08:00

Thanks a lot buddy..how can we use the command line parameters in this to convert pdf to html

Hi.... I have read ur Blog and i ike ur work in pd...

2010-11-27T03:56:04.807-08:00

Hi....
I have read ur Blog and i ike ur work in pdf and java.
I am new in this field. I want to make a program that take a PDF file in input and as an out put it shows all Headings of the Document.
For example there is a document with 5 pages than my program should show all the different type of headings in that 5 pages.
what i need,
1. that is there any object/tag for heading in pdf heading.
2. Or any other way to do this.

I will be very thank full to u for ur time

hi, can help me? i am new. using netbean. how do i...

2010-11-26T00:00:39.565-08:00

hi, can help me? i am new. using netbean. how do i using the source code provided?

Not sure about indexing, the idea is to have a sim...

2010-11-25T10:51:29.158-08:00

Not sure about indexing, the idea is to have a simple text parser for PDF documents.