PDFBox Implementing Text Extraction

First, IntroductionApache PDFBox is an open source, Java-based, PDF document-generated tool library that can be used to create new PDF documents, modify existing PDF documents, and extract the required content from a PDF document. Apache PDFBox also contains a number of command-line tools.
Apache PDFBox recently released the latest version of 1.8.2.

second, the characteristicsApache PDFBox has the following main features:
1) Text extraction: Extracts text from a PDF document.
2) Merge and split: You can combine multiple PDF documents into a single file, or you can split a single PDF into multiple PDF documents.
3) Form Fill: You can extract data from a PDF form, or fill in a PDF form.
4) pdf/a Validation: Verify that the PDF document meets the pdf/a ISO standard.
5) PDF Printing: Exporting PDF documents to the printer-using Java's Print API.
6) PDF Conversion: You can convert a PDF document into an image file.
7) PDF Creation: You can create a new PDF document from scratch.

8) Integrated Lucene search engine: Lucene search engine integrates with PDF index.

third, download address :
1) Pdfbox-1.8.2.jar
Address: Http://archive.apache.org/dist/pdfbox/1.8.2/pdfbox-1.8.2.jar
Description: Meet the general PDF operation requirements.
2) Pdfbox-app-1.8.2.jar
Http://archive.apache.org/dist/pdfbox/1.8.2/pdfbox-app-1.8.2.jar
Description: PDFBox a toolkit for multiple command lines.
3) Fontbox-1.8.2.jar
Address: Http://archive.apache.org/dist/pdfbox/1.8.2/fontbox-1.8.2.jar
Description: PDF using the font pack

Package com.fk.extract.pdf;

Import Java.io.File;
Import Java.io.FileInputStream;
Import java.io.IOException;

Import Org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser;
Import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
Import Org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper;


public class Extracttextfrompdf {public
	void readpdf (String filename) {
		File File = new file (filename);
		FileInputStream in = null;
		try {in
			= new FileInputStream (filename);
			Pdfparser parser = new Pdfparser (in);
			Parser.parse ();
			PDDocument pddocument = Parser.getpddocument ();
			Pdftextstripper stripper = new Pdftextstripper ();
			String result = Stripper.gettext (pddocument);
			System.out.println ("PDF file" + file.getabsolutepath () + "content as follows:");
			SYSTEM.OUT.PRINTLN (result);
		} catch (IOException e) {
			//e.printstacktrace ();
		}
	}
	public static void Main (string[] args) {
		new Extracttextfrompdf (). Readpdf ("Src/match.pdf");
	}
}