Java examples for PDF:pdfbox
pdf read with apache pdfbox
import java.awt.List; import java.io.File; import java.util.Arrays; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument; import org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper; public class PdfRead { public static void main(String[] args) {//from ww w. j a va2 s . co m PDFTextStripper stripper; PDDocument doc; try { doc = PDDocument.load(filePath + File.separator + fileName); stripper = new PDFTextStripper(); stripper.setStartPage(1); stripper.setEndPage(Integer.MAX_VALUE); String x1 = stripper.getText(doc); // break up the file content returned as a string into individual lines List<String> ans = Arrays.asList(x1.split("\r\n")); return ans; } finally { if (doc != null) doc.close(); } } }