Package edu.odu.cs.cs350

Class pdfFileProcessor

java.lang.Object

edu.odu.cs.cs350.pdfFileProcessor

public class pdfFileProcessor
extends Object

A service class to extract text from PDF files using Apache PDFBox. Modified from https://github.com/tvalva/pdfwordscan

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
pdfFileProcessor()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static Document	processFile(File inFile)	Extract text from the PDF file and return it as a Document object.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

pdfFileProcessor

public pdfFileProcessor()

Method Details

processFile

public static Document processFile(File inFile)
                            throws IOException

Extract text from the PDF file and return it as a Document object.

Parameters:

inFile - the PDF file to be processed

Returns:

a Document object containing the extracted text and file name

Throws:

IOException - if there is an error reading the PDF