Java to extract PDF text content

In your daily work, you may need to extract the textual content contained in a huge PDF document. And Free Spire.PDF for Java provides a convenient and fast way to extract text, then introduce the Java code used in the process.

** Basic steps: ** ** 1. ** Free Spire.PDF for Java Download and unzip the package. ** 2. ** Import the Spire.Pdf.jar package in the lib folder as a dependency into your Java application or install the JAR package from the Maven repository (see below for the code that makes up the pom.xml file) please). ** 3. ** In your Java application, create a new Java Class (named ExtractText here) and enter and execute the corresponding Java code.

** Configure the pom.xml file: **

<repositories>
   <repository>
      <id>com.e-iceblue</id>
      <name>e-iceblue</name>
      <url>http://repo.e-iceblue.com/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
   </repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>e-iceblue</groupId>
      <artifactId>spire.pdf.free</artifactId>
      <version>2.6.3</version>
   </dependency>
</dependencies>

** The PDF source document is: **

** Java code: **


import com.spire.pdf.PdfDocument;
import com.spire.pdf.PdfPageBase;
import java.io.*;

public class ExtractText {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        //Create a PdfDocument instance
        PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument();
        //Load PDF file
        doc.loadFromFile("snow.pdf");

        //Create a StringBuilder instance
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        PdfPageBase page;
        //Traverse the PDF pages, get the text for each page and add it to the StringBuilder object
        for(int i= 0;i<doc.getPages().getCount();i++){
            page = doc.getPages().get(i);
            sb.append(page.extractText(true));
        }
        FileWriter writer;
        try {
            //Writes the text of a StringBuilder object to a text file
            writer = new FileWriter("ExtractText.txt");
            writer.write(sb.toString());
            writer.flush();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        doc.close();
    }
}

** Extract results: **