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PDFBox: Extract all text from a document

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Opens an existing PDF and extracts all the text from it

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  1. /**
  2.  * @param args the command line arguments
  3.  * @throws java.io.IOException
  4.  */
  5. public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
  6.     File file = new File("");
  7.  
  8.     PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(file);
  9.  
  10.     PDFTextStripper pdfStripper = new PDFTextStripper();
  11.  
  12.     String text = pdfStripper.getText(document);
  13.     System.out.println(text);
  14.  
  15.     document.close();
  16. }

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