/**
* save the converted text (without any processing) to the given file.
*
* @param filename
* @return
*/
public void PDF2Text(String filename) {
try {
File output =
new File(filename); // The text file where you are going to store the extracted data
stripper = new PDFTextStripper();
wr = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(output)));
stripper.writeText(pd, wr);
if (pd != null) {
pd.close();
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public void PDF2TextPreProssesd(String filename) {
try {
stripper = new PDFTextStripper();
stripper.setParagraphStart("&*&");
stripper.setLineSeparator("#%#");
stripper.setPageSeparator("#%#");
String fulltxt = stripper.getText(pd);
String paras[] = fulltxt.split("&*&");
File file = new File(filename);
try {
BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file));
int i = 0;
while (i < paras.length) {
if (paras[i].length() > 200) {
String para = paras[i].replace("#%#", " ");
out.write(para + "\r\n");
}
i++;
}
out.close();
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
if (pd != null) {
pd.close();
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}