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Betreff: Need your help: How to use pdfbox Gesendet: Di, 02. Mrz 2010 Von: I I<[email protected]> > 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. The ant build script and the maven pom is only needed if you like to compile your own version of pdfbox. Otherwise you probably would prefer the precompiled version which can be downloaded here [1] > *C:\pdfbox-1.0.0\src\main\java>javac org\apache\pdfbox\ExtractText.java > Jan.pdf Jan.txt "javac" is used to compile some source code but not to execute it. But you don't have to do that by hand. Maven or ant will do that for you if necessary. See [2] for further details > *C:\pdfbox-1.0.0\src\main\java>java org\apache\pdfbox\ExtractText Jan.pdf > Jan.pdf > ..... > > *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.* "java" is the correct command to execute a java class, but you didn't use it correct. Try something like this: java -cp <class search path of directories and zip/jar files> org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText <optional ExtractText parameters>Jan.pdf Jan.pdf The classpath (-cp) consists of all jars which can be found in the directory "external", the pdfbox.jar itself and the resources directory. You can find more information on the optional ExtractText parameter at [3]. For further details on how to use the JVM just try "java -help" or have a look into a suitable tutorial, e.g. the Sun java tutorial which can be found at [4]. BR Andreas Lehmkühler [1] http://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html [2] http://pdfbox.apache.org/userguide/building_pdfbox.html [3] http://pdfbox.apache.org/commandlineutilities/ExtractText.html [4] http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/index.html
