If you had actually read the documentation that came with pdftotext you would know that if you pass in a - (dash) as the output filename it will stream the text to stdout. This is exactly what the code Matt Tucker showed you before did which is copied below. It's all there in his message.
As for summary and title info, you'll probably have to use a pdf parsing library to gain access to that from the pdf.
String[] cmd = new String[] { PATH_TO_XPDF, "-enc", "UTF-8", "-q", PDF_FILE_TO_PARSE, "-"}; Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd); BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(p.getInputStream()); InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(bis, "UTF-8"); StringWriter out = new StringWriter(); char [] buf = new char[512]; int len; while ((len = reader.read(buf)) >= 0) { out.write(buf, 0, len); } reader.close();
You should of course wrap this in a try/catch block, etc.
Regards,
Bruce Ritchie
Pinky Iyer wrote:
Hi !
I am trying to use xpdf for pdf parser, the problem i encounter is when
> i encounter a file with .pdf extension, i call the pdftotext script to convert > to text, which in turn uses the file system and leaves the same file with > .txt extension in same dir. How can i get this as a stream and not use > the file system at all. Also How do i access the summary and title info.
Anybody who has done this before, please help! Thanks! Pinky Iyer
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