Thanks Bruce!
I dont know how i missed that! Thanks anyway! It works now....though stuck with title
and summary...
P Iyer
Bruce Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Pinky,
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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