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jPDFText is a Java library that integrates seamlessly into your application or applet to extract words from PDF documents. jPDFText provides the following functions:

• Load PDF documents from files, network drives, URLs or input streams
• Get basic information from the pdf document such as title, author, keywords, page count, etc.
• Extract words from pdf documents as a vector of String
• Extract words page by page
• jPDFText is built on top of Qoppa's proprietary format and doesn't require any third party programs or drivers.

jPDFText - Getting Started
The starting point for using jPDFText is the com.qoppa.pdfText.PDFText. This class is used to load a pdf document and extract the text from the document. The class provides three constructors to load PDF files from the file system, a URL or an InputStream. All constructors take an additional parameter, an object that implements IPasswordHandler, that will be queried if the PDF file has requires a password to open. For PDF files that are not encrypted, this second parameter can be null:

jPDFText - Extract Text
Once a PDFText object has been created, the host application simply needs to call the getText

jPDFText - Extracting Text Page by Page
To extract the text page by page, use the getText method that takes a page number as a parameter. You can get the number of pages from the PDFText object through the getPageCount method.

jPDFText - Extracting Words as a Vector of Strings
Once a PDFText object has been created, the host application simply needs to call the getWords method to get the list of words from the loaded PDF document.

jPDFText - Extracting Words Page by Page
To extract words page by page, use the getWords method that takes a page number as a parameter. You can get the number of pages from the PDFText object through the getPageCount method.

jPDFText - Getting Basic Information about the PDF Document (Title, Author, etc.)
To get basic information about the loaded PDF document, you need to get the DocumentInfo class accessible through PDFText.getDocumentInfo. From this class, you can get information about the document such as title, author, subject, keywords, etc.

jPDFText - Distribution and JAR Files
jPDFText is packaged in a single jar file, jPDFText.jar that gets installed with the evaluation sample. When distributing an application that contains jPDFText, the jPDFText.jar file needs to be distributed along with it and needs to be included in the class path when running the application.