#Apache PDFBox Tutorial

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PDF stands for Portable Document Format. It is a file format which is used to display a printed document in digital form. It is independent of the environment in which it was created or the environment in which it is viewed or printed.

It is developed and specified by Adobe® Systems as a universally compatible file format based on the PostScript format.

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How to extract text line by line from PDF document

How to extract text line by line from PDF document

Apache PDFBox Tutorial – We shall learn how to extract text line by line from PDF document (from all the pages) either by using writeText method or getText method of PDFTextStripper.

Method 1 – Use PDFTextStripper.getText to extract text line by line from PDF document

You may use the getText method of PDFTextStripper that has been used in extracting text from pdf. Then splitting the text string…

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How to extract words from PDF document

How to extract words from PDF document

Apache PDFBox Tutorial – We shall learn how to extract words from PDF document (from all the pages) using writeText method of PDFTextStripper.

The class org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.PDFTextStripper strips out all of the text.

To extract extract words from PDF document, we shall extend this PDFTextStripper class, intercept and implement writeString(String str, List textPositions) method.

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How to extract co-ordinates or position of characters in PDF - PDFBox

How to extract co-ordinates or position of characters in PDF – PDFBox

Apache PDFBox Tutorial – We shall learn how to extract co-ordinates or position of characters in PDF from all the pages using PDFTextStripper.

The class org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.PDFTextStripper strips out all of the text.

To get co-ordinates or location and size of characters in pdf, we shall extend this PDFTextStripper class, intercept and implement writeString(String string, List…

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How to extract images from pdf using PDFBox

How to extract images from pdf using PDFBox

In this Apache PDFBox Tutorial, we shall learn to extract images from pdf using PDFBox and save the images to local.

Extract images from pdf using PDFBox

Following is a step by step process to extract images from pdf using PDFBox :

Extend PDFStreamEngine

Create a Java Class and extend it with PDFStreamEngine.

public class GetImageLocationsAndSize extends PDFStreamEngine

Call processPage()

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How to get location and size of images in pdf

How to get location and size of images in pdf

Apache PDFBox Tutorial – We shall learn how to get location and size of images in pdf from all the pages using PDFStreamEngine.

The class org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.PDFStreamEngine handles and executes some of the operations in processing a PDF document by providing a callback interface.

To get location and size of images in pdf we shall extend this PDFStreamEngine class, intercept and…