https://github.com/jonathanlink/pdflayouttextstripper

Converts a pdf file into a text file while keeping the layout of the original pdf. Useful to extract the content from a table in a pdf file for instance. This is a subclass of PDFTextStripper class (from the Apache PDFBox library).
https://github.com/jonathanlink/pdflayouttextstripper

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Converts a pdf file into a text file while keeping the layout of the original pdf. Useful to extract the content from a table in a pdf file for instance. This is a subclass of PDFTextStripper class (from the Apache PDFBox library).

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jonathanlink/pdflayouttextstripper
• Owner: JonathanLink
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2015-10-11T22:49:10.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-12-17T17:19:17.000Z (11 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-01T20:40:50.054Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: data-extraction, extract, java, layout, pdf, pdfbox, text
• Language: Java
• Homepage: https://jonathanlink.ch/PDFLayoutTextStripper.html
• Size: 21.1 MB
• Stars: 1,569
• Watchers: 54
• Forks: 208
• Open Issues: 24
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# PDFLayoutTextStripper

Converts a PDF file into a text file while keeping the layout of the original PDF. Useful to extract the content from a table or a form in a PDF file. PDFLayoutTextStripper is a subclass of PDFTextStripper class (from the [Apache PDFBox](https://pdfbox.apache.org/) library).

## Use cases

Data extraction from a table in a PDF file

![example](sample.png)

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Data extraction from a form in a PDF file

![example](sample2.png)

## How to install

### Maven

```

  io.github.jonathanlink

  PDFLayoutTextStripper

  2.2.3

```

### Manual

1) Install **apache pdfbox** manually ([to get the v2.0.6 click here](https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.pdfbox/pdfbox/2.0.6) ) and its two dependencies

commons-logging.jar and fontbox

>**warning**: only pdfbox versions **from version 2.0.0 upwards** are compatible with this version of PDFLayoutTextStripper.java

### How to use on Linux/Mac

```

cd PDFLayoutTextStripper

javac -cp .:/pathto/pdfbox-2.0.6.jar:/pathto/commons-logging-1.2.jar:/pathto/PDFLayoutTextStripper/fontbox-2.0.6.jar *.java

java -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

The same as for Linux (see above) but replace :  with ;

## 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);

	}

}

```

## Contributors

Thanks to

* Dmytro Zelinskyy for reporting an issue with its correction (v2.2.3) 

* Ho Ting Cheng for reporting an issue (v2.1)

* James Sullivan for having updated the code to make it work with the latest version of PDFBox (v2.0)