I actually did this as well, when I first looked at this a couple of
weeks ago. If the JAR and your PDF are the directory you're running it
from, try just:
java -jar pdfbox-app-1.5.0.jar ExtractText geography.pdf geography.txt
Simon Kiss wrote:
Dear colleagues, I'm a complete newcomer to java programming. I've =
developed quite a bit of facility in programming in R, some familiarity =
with basic unix commands (sed, grep and awk) and I'm very interested in =
being able to use pdfBox to extract text from .pdf files. =20
I'm working on Mac Os 10.6.6; I downloaded the pre-built .jar file in my =
home directory and I'm trying this command
java -jar pdfbox-app-1.5.0.jar org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText =
geography.pdf geography.txt
But I get the following error
usage: java pdfbox-app-x.y.z.jar <command> <args..>
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Yours, Simon Kiss
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