Well, I think I've found out how to keep parts of the text contained in the pdf document. However I still don't know how to find where the headers or the footers are so as to remove them.Thank you for your time!
aliki > Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:36:03 -0800 > Subject: Re: pdf to text > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > THere are two classes you can use to extract the text from a PDF document > using PDFBox. > > ExtractText is for extracting all the text, ExtractTextByArea will get > text only in a certain area. > > The latter may be more effective if you are looking to strip out headers > and footers on each page. > > Remember to write your code watching for page orientations. > > Duane Nickull > *********************************** > Technoracle Advanced Systems Inc. > Consulting and Contracting; Proven Results! > i. Neo4J, PDF, Java, LiveCycle ES, Flex, AIR, CQ5 & Mobile > b. http://technoracle.blogspot.com > t. @duanechaos > "Don't fear the Graph! Embrace Neo4J" > > > > > > > On 2012-11-12 8:25 AM, "aliki aliki" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >Hello! > >I would like to ask if there is any way that I can convert a pdf to plain > >txt without including additional information of the pdf such as page > >numbers, author names and titles written at the top or at the bottom of > >each page. Thank you in advance! > >
