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MARCH 24, 2010 by CODEZRULE (SHIVA)

Extract Text From pdf, office files(.doc, .ppt,

.xls), open office files, .rtf, and text/plain files
in Java

Following is the code to extract text from .pdf, .doc, .ppt, .xls, .odt, .ods, .odp, .rtf and all
text/plain files. Following jar files are used in the program:

FontBox-0.1.0-dev.jar
jdom.jar
log4j-1.2.15.jar
PDFBox-0.7.3-dev.jar
poi-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar
poi-contrib-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar
poi-scratchpad-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar

If you are unable to find these jars leave a comment, I’ll send you the jars.

The code is as follows:

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import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipFile;
import javax.swing.text.DefaultStyledDocument;
import javax.swing.text.rtf.RTFEditorKit;
import org.apache.poi.hdf.extractor.WordDocument;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFRow;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFSheet;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook;
import org.apache.poi.poifs.eventfilesystem.POIFSReader;
import org.apache.poi.poifs.eventfilesystem.POIFSReaderEvent;
import org.apache.poi.poifs.eventfilesystem.POIFSReaderListener;
import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.DocumentInputStream;
import org.apache.poi.util.LittleEndian;
import org.jdom.Document;
import org.jdom.Element;
import org.jdom.Text;
import org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder;
import org.pdfbox.cos.COSDocument;
import org.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser;
import org.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.FileReader;

public class ReadFileFormat {

StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(8192);

StringBuffer TextBuffer = new StringBuffer();

public String pdftotext(String fileName) {

PDFParser parser;
String parsedText;
PDFTextStripper pdfStripper;
PDDocument pdDoc = null;
COSDocument cosDoc = null;
File f = new File(fileName);
try {
parser = new PDFParser(new FileInputStream(f));
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Unablepen PDF Parser.");

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return null;
}
try {
parser.parse();
cosDoc = parser.getDocument();
pdfStripper = new PDFTextStripper();
pdDoc = new PDDocument(cosDoc);
parsedText = pdfStripper.getText(pdDoc);
cosDoc.close();
pdDoc.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Anption occured in parsing the PDF Documen
e.printStackTrace();
try {
if (cosDoc != null) {
cosDoc.close();
}
if (pdDoc != null) {
pdDoc.close();
}
} catch (Exception e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
System.out.println("Done return parsedText;
}

public String doc2text(String fileName) throws IOException {

WordDocument wd = new WordDocument(fileName);
StringWriter docTextWriter = new StringWriter();
wd.writeAllText(new PrintWriter(docTextWriter));
docTextWriter.close();
return docTextWriter.toString();
}

public String rtf2text(InputStream is) throws Exception {

DefaultStyledDocument styledDoc = new DefaultStyledDocument();
new RTFEditorKit().read(is, styledDoc, 0);
return styledDoc.getText(0, styledDoc.getLength());
}

public String ppt2text(String fileName) throws Exception {

POIFSReader poifReader = new POIFSReader();
poifReader.registerListener(new ReadFileFormat.MyPOIFSReaderListen
poifReader.read(new FileInputStream(fileName));
return sb.toString();
}

class MyPOIFSReaderListener implements POIFSReaderListener {

public void processPOIFSReaderEvent(POIFSReaderEvent event) {

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char ch0 = (char) 0;

char ch11 = (char) 11;
try {
DocumentInputStream dis = null;
dis = event.getStream();
byte btoWrite[] = new byte[dis.available()];
dis.read(btoWrite, 0, dis.available());
for (int i = 0; i < btoWrite.length - 20; i++) {
long type = LittleEndian.getUShort(btoWrite, i + 2);
long size = LittleEndian.getUInt(btoWrite, i + 4);
if (type == 4008) {
try {
String s = new String(btoWrite, i + 4 + 1, (in
if (s.trim().startsWith("Click to edit") == fa
sb.append(s);
}
} catch (Exception ee) {
System.out.println("erroree);
}
}
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
return;
}
}
}

public String xls2text(InputStream in) throws Exception {

HSSFWorkbook excelWb = new HSSFWorkbook(in);
StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer(4096);
int numberOfSheets = excelWb.getNumberOfSheets();
for (int i = 0; i < numberOfSheets; i++) {
HSSFSheet sheet = excelWb.getSheetAt(i);
int numberOfRows = sheet.getPhysicalNumberOfRows();
if (numberOfRows > 0) {
if (excelWb.getSheetName(i) != null && excelWb.getSheetNam
// append sheet name to content
if (i > 0) {
result.append("\n\n");
}
result.append(excelWb.getSheetName(i).trim());
result.append(":\n\n");
}

Iterator<HSSFRow> rowIt = sheet.rowIterator();

while (rowIt.hasNext()) {
HSSFRow row = rowIt.next();
if (row != null) {
boolean hasContent = false;
Iterator<HSSFCell> it = row.cellIterator();
while (it.hasNext()) {
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HSSFCell cell = it.next();

String text = null;
try {
switch (cell.getCellType()) {
case HSSFCell.CELL_TYPE_BLANK:
case HSSFCell.CELL_TYPE_ERROR:
// ignore all blank or error cells
break;
case HSSFCell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC:
text = Double.toString(cell.getNum
break;
case HSSFCell.CELL_TYPE_BOOLEAN:
text = Boolean.toString(cell.getBo
break;
case HSSFCell.CELL_TYPE_STRING:
default:
text = cell.getStringCellValue();
break;
}
} catch (Exception e) {
}
if ((text != null) && (text.length() != 0)) {
result.append(text.trim());
result.append(' ');
hasContent = true;
}
}
if (hasContent) {
// append a newline at the end of each row that has content
result.append('\n');
}
}
}
}
}
return result.toString();
}

public void processElement(Object o) {

if (o instanceof Element) {
Element e = (Element) o;
String elementName = e.getQualifiedName();
if (elementName.startsWith("text")) {
if (elementName.equals("text:tab")) // add tab for text:ta
{
TextBuffer.append("\t");
} else if (elementName.equals("text:s")) // add space for
{
TextBuffer.append(" ");
} else {
List children = e.getContent();
Iterator iterator = children.iterator();
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while (iterator.hasNext()) {
Object child = iterator.next();
//If Child is a Text Node, then append the text
if (child instanceof Text) {
Text t = (Text) child;
TextBuffer.append(t.getValue());
} else {
processElement(child); // Recursively process
}
}
}
if (elementName.equals("text:p")) {
TextBuffer.append("\n");
}
} else {
List non_text_list = e.getContent();
Iterator it = non_text_list.iterator();
while (it.hasNext()) {
Object non_text_child = it.next();
processElement(non_text_child);
}
}
}
}

public String getOpenOfficeText(String fileName) throws Exception {

TextBuffer = new StringBuffer();
//Unzip the openOffice Document
ZipFile zipFile = new ZipFile(fileName);
Enumeration entries = zipFile.entries();
ZipEntry entry;
while (entries.hasMoreElements()) {
entry = (ZipEntry) entries.nextElement();
if (entry.getName().equals("content.xml")) {
TextBuffer = new StringBuffer();
SAXBuilder sax = new SAXBuilder();
Document doc = sax.build(zipFile.getInputStream(entry));
Element rootElement = doc.getRootElement();
processElement(rootElement);
break;
}
}
return TextBuffer.toString();
}

public String fileToStringNow(File f) throws Exception {

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(f));
String nextLine = "";
StringBuffer sbuff = new StringBuffer();
while ((nextLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
sbuff.append(nextLine);
sbuff.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
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}
return sbuff.toString();
}

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

ReadFileFormat rff = new ReadFileFormat();
System.out.print("Enter Name => ");
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(Syste
String fileName = br.readLine();
File f = new File(fileName);
if (!f.exists()) {
System.out.println("Sorry does not Exists!");
} else {
if (f.getName().endsWith(".pdf") || f.getName().endsWith(".PDF
System.out.println(rff.pdftotext(fileName));
} else if (f.getName().endsWith(".doc") || f.getName().endsWit
System.out.println(rff.doc2text(fileName));
} else if (f.getName().endsWith(".rtf") || f.getName().endsWit
System.out.println(rff.rtf2text(new FileInputStream(f)));
} else if (f.getName().endsWith(".ppt") || f.getName().endsWit
System.out.println(rff.ppt2text(fileName));
} else if (f.getName().endsWith(".xls") || f.getName().endsWit
System.out.println(rff.xls2text(new FileInputStream(f)));
} else if (f.getName().endsWith(".odt") || f.getName().endsWit
System.out.println(rff.getOpenOfficeText(fileName));
} else {
System.out.println(rff.fileToStringNow(f));
}
}
br.close();
}
}

If you are on a linux machine with bash shell then place the code in ReadFileFormat.java beside
the above mentioned jar files and execute the following commands:

1. export CLASSPATH=FontBox-0.1.0-dev.jar:jdom.jar:log4j-1.2.15.jar:PDFBox-0.7.3-
dev.jar:poi-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar:poi-contrib-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar:poi-scratchpad-2.5.1-
final-20040804.jar:$CLASSPATH
2. javac ReadFileFormat.java
3. java ReadFileFormat

If you are on a windows machine and javac has been set in your classpath then follow the
following commands from your command line:

1. set classpath=%classpath%;.;FontBox-0.1.0-dev.jar;.;jdom.jar;.;log4j-1.2.15.jar;.;PDFBox-0.7.3-
dev.jar;.;poi-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar;.;poi-contrib-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar;.;poi-scratchpad-
2.5.1-final-20040804.jar;.;
2. javac ReadFileFormat.java
3. java ReadFileFormat

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