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* Attempts to extract text from a PDF file. *
* * * @author Kelvin Tan * @version $Revision$ */ public class PdfTextExtractor { private static Category cat = Category.getInstance(PdfTextExtractor.class); public static void main(String[] args) { File f = new File("/usr/local/test.pdf"); try { Pdf pdf = new Pdf(f.toString()); int pagecount = pdf.getPageCount(); cat.debug(f.toString() + "has " + pagecount + " pages."); for (int i = 1; i <= pagecount; i++) { System.out.println(getContent(pdf, i)); } } catch (IOException ioe) { cat.error("IOException parsing PDF file:" + f.toString(), ioe); } catch (PjException pje) { cat.error("PjException parsing PDF file:" + f.toString(), pje); } } private static String getContent(Pdf pdf, int pageNo) { String content = null; PjStream stream = null; StringBuffer strbf = new StringBuffer(); try { PjPage page = (PjPage) pdf.getObject(pdf.getPage(pageNo)); PjObject pobj = (PjObject) pdf.resolve(page.getContents()); if (pobj instanceof PjArray) { PjArray array = (PjArray) pobj; Vector vArray = array.getVector(); int size = vArray.size(); for (int j = 0; j < size; j++) { stream = (PjStream) pdf.resolve((PjObject) vArray.get(j)); strbf.append(getStringFromPjStream(stream)); } content = strbf.toString(); } else { stream = (PjStream) pobj; content = getStringFromPjStream(stream); } } catch (InvalidPdfObjectException pdfe) { cat.error("Invalid PDF Object:" + pdfe, pdfe); } catch (Exception e) { cat.error("Exception in getContent() " + e, e); } return content; } private static String getStringFromPjStream(PjStream stream) { StringBuffer strbf = new StringBuffer(); try { int start,end = 0; stream = stream.flateDecompress(); String longString = stream.toString(); int strlen = longString.length(); int lastIndex = longString.lastIndexOf(')'); while (lastIndex != -1 && end != lastIndex) { start = longString.indexOf('(', end); end = longString.indexOf(')', start); String text = longString.substring(start + 1, end); strbf.append(text); } } catch (InvalidPdfObjectException pdfe) { cat.error("InvalidObjectException:" + pdfe.getMessage(), pdfe); } return strbf.toString(); } }