read text from a particular page using PDFBox

java pdfbox
Shyam Sundar Ananthaswamy picture Shyam Sundar Ananthaswamy · Nov 26, 2012 · Viewed 17.3k times · Source

I know how to read text of an entire pdf file usinf PDFBox using PDFTextStripper.getText(PDDocument).

I also have a sample on how to get an object reference to a particular page using PDDocumentCatalog.getAllPages().get(i).

How do I get the text of just one page using PDFBox as I dont see any such method on PDPage class?

Answer

amaidment picture amaidment · Mar 28, 2013

You can set parameters on the PDFTextStripper to read particular pages:

PDDocument doc; // document
int i; // page no.

PDFTextStripper reader = new PDFTextStripper();
reader.setStartPage(i);
reader.setEndPage(i);
String pageText = reader.getText(doc);

As far as I'm aware, PDPage is more used with representing a page onscreen, rather than extracting text. As such, I wouldn't recommend using this to extract text.

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