Hello,
I forward this to the mailing-list. It is very difficult
to extract text(structures) from a PDF. The result depends
a great deal on the way the PDF was constructed, so there
could be more than one answer to your question...
Quoting Álvaro Izquierdo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello Bruno,
>
> I'm a computer science student of University of Valladolid from Spain and I
> need to read a PDF file and transform it in text (string, byte array ....).
>
> I have been able to know the package itext. And I want to use for my
> target.
>
> So, I have two ideas:
>
> 1:
> PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("mydocument.pdf");
> int n = reader.getNumberOfPages();
> RandomAccessFileOrArray caca2 = new RandomAccessFileOrArray
> ("mydocument.pdf");
> for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++){
> byte[] yeah2 =reader.getPageContent(i,caca2);
> //write to text file
> }
>
> 2:
> PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("mydocument.pdf");
> PdfString caca = new PdfString();
> String yeah = caca.decrypt(reader).toString();
> //Write to text file
>
>
> which is better? another form exists better? Do you recommend to use any
> class to me
> Any response will help me a lot,
>
> Thanks in advanced, and best regards,
>
> Álvaro.
>
>
>
>
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