Use cases

Data extraction from a table in a PDF file

How to install

Maven

<dependency>  <groupId>io.github.jonathanlink</groupId>  <artifactId>PDFLayoutTextStripper</artifactId>  <version>2.2.3</version></dependency>

Manual

How to use on Linux/Mac

cd PDFLayoutTextStripperjavac -cp .:/pathto/pdfbox-2.0.6.jar:/pathto/commons-logging-1.2.jar:/pathto/PDFLayoutTextStripper/fontbox-2.0.6.jar *.javajava -cp .:/pathto/pdfbox-2.0.6.jar:/pathto/commons-logging-1.2.jar:/pathto/PDFLayoutTextStripper/fontbox-2.0.6.jar test

How to use on Windows

Sample code

import java.io.File;import java.io.FileNotFoundException;import java.io.IOException;import org.apache.pdfbox.io.RandomAccessFile;import org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser;import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;import org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripper;public class test {public static void main(String[] args) {String string = null;        try {            PDFParser pdfParser = new PDFParser(new RandomAccessFile(new File("./samples/bus.pdf"), "r"));            pdfParser.parse();            PDDocument pdDocument = new PDDocument(pdfParser.getDocument());            PDFTextStripper pdfTextStripper = new PDFLayoutTextStripper();            string = pdfTextStripper.getText(pdDocument);        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {            e.printStackTrace();        } catch (IOException e) {            e.printStackTrace();        };        System.out.println(string);}}

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