Parsing PDF files in Hadoop Map Reduce

Question

I have to parse PDF files , that are in HDFS in a Map Reduce Program in Hadoop. So i get the PDF file from HDFS as Input splits and it has to be parsed and sent to the Mapper Class. For implementing this InputFormat I had gone through this link . How can the these input splits be parsed and converted into text format ?

Answer 1

Processing PDF files in Hadoop can be done by extending FileInputFormat Class. Let the class extending it be WholeFileInputFormat. In the WholeFileInputFormat class you override the getRecordReader() method. Now each pdf will be received as an Individual Input Split. Then these individual splits can be parsed to extract the text. This link gives a clear example of understanding how to extend FileInputFormat.