Using PDFBox without Maven

[Stephen Haggai]

Hi All,

Could someone advise if this is the proper way to use PDFBox without Maven?
There are many users who are not familiar with Maven. I have downloaded
pdfbox-1.1.0.jar, fontbox-1.1.0.jar, and jempbox-1.1.0.jar from
http://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html

I added all three jars to my classpath and compiled the following program

import java.io.*;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.*;
import org.apache.pdfbox.util.*;

public class PDFTest {

 public static void main(String[] args){
 PDDocument pd;
 BufferedWriter wr;
 try {
         File input = new File("C:\\invoice.pdf");
         File output = new File("C:\\Text.txt");
         pd = PDDocument.load(input);

         PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFTextStripper();
         wr = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new
FileOutputStream(output)));
         stripper.writeText(pd, wr);
         if (pd != null) {
             pd.close();
         }
 } catch (Exception e){
         e.printStackTrace();
        }
     }
}

It compiles fine but I receive the following error messages when I run it.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory
    at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser.<clinit>(BaseParser.java:58)
    at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:846)
    at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:814)
    at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:785)
    at PDFTest.main(PDFTest.java:13)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
    ... 5 more


When I add commons-logging-1.1.1.jar in the classpath it works fine. Does
this mean that commons-logging-1.1.1.jar has to be included in the classpath
in addition to the already listed jars?

Thanks in advance,
Stephen