pdftotextconverter.PDFToTextConverter.java Source code

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package pdftotextconverter;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.PdfTextExtractor;
import java.awt.Desktop;
import javax.swing.filechooser.FileNameExtensionFilter;
import javax.swing.JFileChooser;

/**
 *
 * @author Eric Loeper
 */
public class PDFToTextConverter {

    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO code application logic here
        selectPDFFiles();
    }

    public static void selectPDFFiles() {
        JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser();
        FileNameExtensionFilter filter = new FileNameExtensionFilter("PDF", "pdf");
        chooser.setFileFilter(filter);
        chooser.setMultiSelectionEnabled(true);
        int returnVal = chooser.showOpenDialog(null);
        if (returnVal == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
            File[] Files = chooser.getSelectedFiles();
            System.out.println("Please wait...");
            for (int i = 0; i < Files.length; i++) {
                convertPDFToText(Files[i].toString(), "textfrompdf" + i + ".txt");
            }
            System.out.println("Conversion complete");
        }
    }

    public static void convertPDFToText(String src, String desc) {
        try {
            FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(desc);
            BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(fw);
            PdfReader pr = new PdfReader(src);
            int pNum = pr.getNumberOfPages();
            for (int page = 1; page <= pNum; page++) {
                String text = PdfTextExtractor.getTextFromPage(pr, page);
                bw.write(text);
                bw.newLine();
            }
            bw.flush();
            bw.close();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }
}