Is it possible you're hitting this issue?
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-956
Try setting suppressDuplicateOverlappingText to false and see if it
changes the extraction time?
Mike McCandless
http://blog.mikemccandless.com
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Zhang, Lisheng
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been usiing PDFBox to extract text from PDF files for full text search
> for a few years,
> and found it is a great product. Recently I downloaded PDFBox 1.5 and found
> that it can
> extract text from many PDF files which cannot be processed previously,
> thanks!!
>
> The problem I have is that it took long time for PDFTextStripper.getText(..)
> to finish, for example
> our client has a 27MB PDF file which contains some graphics, it took
> getText(..) 50m to finish
> even though it only extract 100K text eventually.
>
> I tried to change input parameters and results are same essentially, I would
> like to know if this
> speed is expected and the possibility to improve?
>
> Thanks very much for helps, Lisheng
>
