#.pdf to text pdf
By default all pages in the pdf document are extracted. If you wanted to start on page 2 and extract to the end of the document then you would just NOTE: The startPage and endPage properties of PDFTextStripper are 1 based and inclusive. You could do this: PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFTextStripper ( ) The simplest is to specify the range of pages that you want to be extracted.įor example, to only extract text from the second and third pages of the PDF document There are several ways that we can limit the text that is extracted during the extraction It is possible for users to utilize or extend the PDFTextStripper class to meet some of Line application nor the LucenePDFDocument will be able to fulfill those requirements. Some applications will have complex text extraction requiments and neither the command Most users, if not then you can use some of the advanced text extraction techniquesĭescribed in the next section. This approach is very simple and should be sufficient for The LucenePDFDocument automaticallyĮxtracts a variety of metadata fields from the PDF to be added to the index, the javadoc You would if it had been created from a text or HTML file. Now that you hava a Lucene Document object, you can add it to the Lucene index just like Document luceneDocument = LucenePDFDocument. PDFBox providesĪ simple approach for adding PDF documents into a Lucene index. Lucene to be able to index a PDF document it must first be converted to text. Lucene is an open source text search library from the Apache Jakarta Project.
PDFTextStripper and can be easily executed on the command line with
This functionality is encapsulated in the One of the main features of PDFBox is its ability to quickly and accurately extract textįrom a variety of PDF documents.