In many cases, it is required by users to extract the Text inside a PDF document. This feature can also be acheived by using a PDF Utility or software like Adobe Acrobat Reader/Writer. But for developers, who want to extract text from PDF documents programmatically, Aspose has provided a very easiest approach through Aspose.Pdf.Kit (Java Version).

 

Aspose.Pdf.Kit (Java Version ) provides a class PdfExtractor (Java Version ) that is used to extract content from any PDF document. To extract text from PDF document, follow these steps:

 

1. Create an object of PdfExtractor (Java Version ) class by calling its empty constructor
2. Provide the password for PDF document using Password (Java Version ) property of PdfExtractor (Java Version ) class.
3. Bind the PDF document with extractor by calling BindPdf (Java Version ) method that would take the input PDF file path or a stream as argument.
4. Call ExtractText (Java Version ) method that will extract text from PDF document.
5. Finally call GetText (Java Version ) method to store the extracted text in a plain text file or a stream.

 

Code Snippet

 

[C#]

 

//Instantiate PdfExtractor object

PdfExtractor extractor = new PdfExtractor();

 

//Set Password for input PDF file

extractor.Password = "";

 

//Bind the input PDF document to extractor

extractor.BindPdf(".\\text.pdf");

 

//Extract text from the input PDF document

extractor.ExtractText();

 

//Save the extracted text to a text file

extractor.GetText(".\\text.txt");

 

[VB.NET]

 

'Instantiate PdfExtractor object

Dim extractor As PdfExtractor =  New PdfExtractor()

 

'Set Password for input PDF file

extractor.Password = ""

 

'Bind the input PDF document to extractor

extractor.BindPdf(".\\text.pdf")

 

'Extract text from the input PDF document

extractor.ExtractText()

 

'Save the extracted text to a text file

extractor.GetText(".\\text.txt")

 

[Java]

 

//Instantiate PdfExtractor object

PdfExtractor extractor = new PdfExtractor();

 

//Bind the input PDF document to extractor

extractor.bindPdf(path + "Text.pdf");

 

//Extract text from the input PDF document

extractor.extractText();

 

//Save the extracted text to a text file

extractor.getText(path + "text.txt");