Hello, I want to read pdf contents using Java or convert pdf to text using Java. I downloaded the pdfbox and unzipped it to a folder. I then executed *ant *on command line prompt. Everything was fine with some warnings there. And then I used the command as shown below from the folder src/main/java. I used this command as there is no ExtractText.class file as yet.
*C:\pdfbox-1.0.0\src\main\java>javac org\apache\pdfbox\ExtractText.java Jan.pdf Jan.txt org\apache\pdfbox\ExtractText.java:27: package pdmodel does not exist import pdmodel.PDDocument; ^ org\apache\pdfbox\ExtractText.java:28: package pdmodel.encryption does not exist import pdmodel.encryption.AccessPermiss*ion; *^ org\apache\pdfbox\ExtractText.java:29: package pdmodel.encryption does not exist import pdmodel.encryption.StandardDecryptionMaterial; ^ org\apache\pdfbox\ExtractText.java:30: package util does not exist import util.PDFText2HTML; ^ org\apache\pdfbox\ExtractText.java:31: package util does not exist import util.PDFTextStripper; ^ error: Class names, 'Jan.pdf,Jan.txt', are only accepted if annotation processin g is explicitly requested org\apache\pdfbox\ExtractText.java:162: cannot find symbol symbol : class PDDocument location: class org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText PDDocument document = null; ^ org\apache\pdfbox\ExtractText.java:170: cannot find symbol symbol : variable PDDocument location: class org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText document = PDDocument.load(url, force); ^ org\apache\pdfbox\ExtractText.java:179: cannot find symbol symbol : variable PDDocument location: class org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText document = PDDocument.load(pdfFile, force); ^ org\apache\pdfbox\ExtractText.java:189: cannot find symbol symbol : class StandardDecryptionMaterial location: class org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText StandardDecryptionMaterial sdm = new StandardDecryptionMater ial( password ); ^ org\apache\pdfbox\ExtractText.java:189: cannot find symbol symbol : class StandardDecryptionMaterial location: class org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText StandardDecryptionMaterial sdm = new StandardDecryptionMater ial( password ); ^ org\apache\pdfbox\ExtractText.java:191: cannot find symbol symbol : class AccessPermission location: class org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText AccessPermission ap = document.getCurrentAccessPermission(); ^ org\apache\pdfbox\ExtractText.java:223: cannot find symbol symbol : class PDFTextStripper location: class org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText PDFTextStripper stripper = null; ^ org\apache\pdfbox\ExtractText.java:226: cannot find symbol symbol : class PDFText2HTML location: class org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText stripper = new PDFText2HTML(encoding); ^ org\apache\pdfbox\ExtractText.java:230: cannot find symbol symbol : class PDFTextStripper location: class org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText stripper = new PDFTextStripper(encoding); ^ 15 errors C:\pdfbox-1.0.0\src\main\java>* And then, I did the following: *C:\pdfbox-1.0.0\src\main\java>java org\apache\pdfbox\ExtractText Jan.pdf Jan.txt Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org\apache\pdfbox\Ext ractText Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org\apache\pdfbox\ExtractText at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source) Could not find the main class: org\apache\pdfbox\ExtractText. Program will exit .* *C:\pdfbox-1.0.0\src\main\java>* * * Could you please help me how to extract text from a pdf file. Your help will be highly appreciated.* * * * Thanks * *
