Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory

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MLS picture MLS · Sep 26, 2011 · Viewed 81.4k times · Source

I am using pdfbox in java to convert pdf to images. But when I compile I got the message

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory.

Here is the code I am following. Kindly help me to get out of this error.

Answer

Joachim Sauer picture Joachim Sauer · Sep 26, 2011

You need the Apache Commons Logging library on your classpath.

Chances are that you're missing all the dependencies of PDFBox:

Minimum Requirement for PDFBox

  • Java 1.5
  • commons-logging

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