Tilman and Andreas, Thank you for your help. Unfortunately, I can't make either suggestion work: Tilman: I don't think the problem is a missing $PATH entry. My pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar is in /usr/local/bin:
jonathan$ ls /usr/local/bin/pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar /usr/local/bin/pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar This is in $PATH: jonathan$ echo $PATH /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:.:/Users/jonathan/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin Andreas: To eliminate as much uncertainty over permissions as possible, I did jonathan$ chmod 777 /usr/local/bin/pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar drj-air:Desktop jonathan$ ls -al /usr/local/bin/pdfb* -rwxrwxrwx@ 1 jonathan staff 10613055 Aug 16 13:26 /usr/local/bin/pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar (I don't understand the @ flag: Is that the problem?) Anyway, it still doesn't work: jonathan$ java -jar pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar \ > ExtractText aFile.pdf > aFile.txt; cat aFile.txt Error: Unable to access jarfile pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar What seems to work, again, is to supply the full path of pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar: jonathan$ java -jar /usr/local/bin/pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar \ > ExtractText aFile.pdf > aFile.txt; cat aFile.txt (Text) which is also what I got before modifying pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar's permissions. Any further suggestions? Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Lehmkühler <andr...@lehmi.de> To: users <users@pdfbox.apache.org>; Jonathan Levi <drjle...@aol.com> Sent: Tue, Nov 3, 2015 5:48 am Subject: Re: Shell Can't Find pdfbox Hi, > Jonathan Levi <drjle...@aol.com> hat am 3. November 2015 um 03:25 geschrieben: > > > I'm finding that shell commands to use pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar won't work unless > the full path is used. Example: > > drj-air:Desktop jonathan$ ls /usr/local/bin/pdfb* > /usr/local/bin/pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar > drj-air:Desktop jonathan$ java -jar pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar ExtractText > Contact-Office-Letter.pdf > Error: Unable to access jarfile pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar > drj-air:Desktop jonathan$ java -jar /usr/local/bin/pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar > ExtractText Contact-Office-Letter.pdf > drj-air:Desktop jonathan$ > > Is there a shell variable that has to be set for Java to know where to look > for jars? I guess the issue might be that your user doesn't have sufficient rights to access the jar. Check the output of ls -al /usr/local/bin/pdfb* and change the access permissions if necessary > Using Mac OS X 10.11.1. > > TIA, > > Jonathan BR Andreas
