Comments on: PDFBox : Extract Text from PDF

By: Prakash

Prakash — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 06:50:28 +0000

the output for indian languages is unrecognizable or not recognizable, I made a mistake in writing above sentence. Thanks.

By: Prakash

Prakash — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 06:48:56 +0000

Thanks for nice explanation of this utility. I tried this and got very good results with the English text, but when it came to extracting unicode/Indian language text from PDF the out put was recognizable in many of the well known fonts. This must be a well known issue, can you please suggest me a solution?

By: NAB

NAB — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:23:48 +0000

Hi Everyone,

I have the same problem with Patrik’s:

org.apache.pdfbox.exceptions.WrappedIOException
at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.(PDFStreamEngine.java:125)
at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.(PDFTextStripper.java:120)
at PDFTextParser1.pdftoText(PDFTextParser1.java:33)
at PDFTextParser1.main(PDFTextParser1.java:56)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.pdfbox.util.operator.ShowTextGlyph cannot be cast to org.apache.pdfbox.util.operator.OperatorProcessor
at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.(PDFStreamEngine.java:119)
… 3 more

Does anyone know how to solve this? I am running on windows xp. Thank you very much in advance for helping me sort this out.

By: gayathri

gayathri — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:13:37 +0000

I have to extract only lines data(position, thickness ,width,height) from pdf to text file if u people know do needfull to me

By: vinz

vinz — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 08:03:01 +0000

its awesome..

Thanks for sharing..

By: dazzle

dazzle — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:52:28 +0000

Thank you. All except this pdf did not work for me. can you please check what is the issue here
http://cid-a3aa7f7d9888874d.office.live.com/self.aspx/Public/getting%5E_started%5E_with%5E_Flex3.pdf

By: nik

nik — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:10:46 +0000

Thanks, really works!

I’ve tried to extract text from a particular region within a pdf with current pdfbox build presented on apache websit and had no luck….hope to do this with your jar file)

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Best hosting service — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:37:15 +0000

I have used your program and its work for me really. Thanks for sharing this code. And hope to see more these type of useful code.

By: Sakil Imran

Sakil Imran — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:42:43 +0000

it really works. thanks for your work.

By: arlisa

arlisa — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:21:12 +0000

hi,
I’ve tried the code, and its work, Then now I wanna ask about how to read a PDF file by it sections. I mean, if I have a PDF file and I don’t wanna read all contents from it, Can you help how to read it by its sections? For example I just wanna get the content from Introduction section, or may be I wanna read only the table of content.
Thank you.