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How to extract content from a PDF using Java
Problem Description
How to extract content from a PDF using java.
Solution
Following is the program to extract content from a PDF using java.
import java.io.File; import java.io.FileInputStream; import org.apache.tika.metadata.Metadata; import org.apache.tika.parser.ParseContext; import org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParser; import org.apache.tika.sax.BodyContentHandler; public class ExtractContentFromPDF { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { BodyContentHandler handler = new BodyContentHandler(); Metadata metadata = new Metadata(); FileInputStream inputstream = new FileInputStream(new File( "C:/tika/pdfExample.pdf")); ParseContext pcontext = new ParseContext(); //parsing the document using PDF parser PDFParser pdfparser = new PDFParser(); pdfparser.parse(inputstream, handler, metadata,pcontext); //getting the content of the document System.out.println("Contents of the PDF :" + handler.toString()); //getting metadata of the document System.out.println("Metadata of the PDF:"); String[] metadataNames = metadata.names(); for(String name : metadataNames) { System.out.println(name+ " : " + metadata.get(name)); } } }
Input
Output
Contents of the document:Sheet1 ID NAME BRANCH PERCENTAGE EMAIL 1 Ram IT 85 ram123@gmail.com 2 Rahim EEE 95 rahim123@gmail.com 3 Robert ECE 90 robert123@gmail.com Metadata of the document: date: 2017-05-19T09:35:57Z extended-properties:AppVersion: 16.0300 meta:creation-date: 2015-06-05T18:17:20Z extended-properties:Application: Microsoft Excel extended-properties:Company: Creation-Date: 2015-06-05T18:17:20Z dcterms:created: 2015-06-05T18:17:20Z Last-Modified: 2017-05-19T09:35:57Z dcterms:modified: 2017-05-19T09:35:57Z Last-Save-Date: 2017-05-19T09:35:57Z Application-Version: 16.0300 protected: false meta:save-date: 2017-05-19T09:35:57Z Application-Name: Microsoft Excel modified: 2017-05-19T09:35:57Z publisher: Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet dc:publisher:
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