Hi,

Marek Gibiec schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to using pdfbox, I downloaded the sources files recently and started
> playing with them.
> 
> Unfortunately, I was not able to run a single example. The one I'm
> particularly interested in is ExtractText.java.
> 
> After providing a local pdf file to the pdfFile variable and setting the
> toConsole variable to true I get the following error:
> 
> 
> 
> Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Error: could not find
>> resource 'Resources/PDFTextStripper.properties' on classpath.
>>         at
>>
> org.apache.pdfbox.util.ResourceLoader.loadProperties(ResourceLoader.java:112)
>>         at
>> org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.<init>(PDFTextStripper.java:162)
>>         at org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText.main(ExtractText.java:224)
>> Java Result: 1
>>
>>
> Any one could provide some hints what I'm doing wrong?
Sounds like an incomplete classpath. I guess the "src/main/resources"
directory is missing.

As alternative test you could just drop your pdf in the "test/input"
directory and run the "testextract" target with ant. This will extract
all files in that directory to the target dir "test/output".

BR
Andreas Lehmkühler

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