Reading Content from a PDF file

How to extract content from a PDF file in java

Here I am extreacting last 200 characters of a PDF file.



import java.io.File;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper;

public class PDFReader {

    /**
     * @param args
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        {
            try
            {
            PDDocument pddDocument=PDDocument.load(new File("C:/Users/mkum63/Desktop/vit-strategic-growth-inst-sp.pdf"));
           System.out.println(pddDocument.getNumberOfPages());
           PDFTextStripper textStripper=new PDFTextStripper();
          String text=textStripper.getText(pddDocument);
          //System.out.println(textStripper.getEndPage());
           System.out.println(text.subSequence(text.length()-200, text.length()));
            pddDocument.close();
            }
            catch(Exception ex)
            {
            ex.printStackTrace();
            }
            }
    }

}

Jar files required :

commons-logging-api-1.1.1
fontbox-1.2.1
pdfbox-1.3.1