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Dmitri Russu commented on PDFBOX-3581:
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{code}
package org.pdfextractor;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripper;
import java.io.*;
/**
* Created by dru on 21.11.2016.
*/
class PDFExtractThread extends Thread {
private String fileName;
private File readFile;
private PDDocument document;
public PDFExtractThread(File readFile) {
try {
this.readFile = readFile;
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
System.exit(1);
}
}
public void run() {
try {
//get FileName
this.readFile.setWritable(true);
this.document = PDDocument.load(this.readFile);
this.fileName = (new
String(this.readFile.getName()).toLowerCase().replace(".pdf", ""));
pdfBoxExtractText();
//Closing the document
this.document.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public void pdfBoxExtractText() throws Exception {
//Retrieving text from PDF document
PDFTextStripper pdfStripper = new PDFTextStripper();
System.out.println(this.fileName);
FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter(this.fileName+".txt");
BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(fileWriter);
String text = pdfStripper.getText(this.document);
writer.write(text);
writer.close();
}
}
{code}
> PDFTextStripper not working with multiple threads
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: PDFBOX-3581
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3581
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Text extraction
> Affects Versions: 2.0.3
> Environment: Ubuntu 15.1
> Reporter: Dmitri Russu
> Labels: multithreading
>
> Hi, I try to use pdfbox to extract text from a list of files, the problem is
> PDFTextStripper does not work on thread mode, when I try to use it in
> multythread nothing happens. it is a bug or limitation?
> could you help me ?
> thanks
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