PDFTextExtractor.java

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 * Copyright 2004 Outerthought bvba and Schaubroeck nv
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package com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.lucene.textextraction;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.CharArrayWriter;
import java.io.Writer;

import org.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser;
import org.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper;

public class PDFTextExtractor implements MimetypeTextExtractor
{
    public String getText(byte[] data) throws Exception
    {
        PDDocument pdfDocument = null;
        try {
            PDFParser parser = new PDFParser(new ByteArrayInputStream(data));
            parser.parse();

            pdfDocument = parser.getPDDocument();

            Writer writer = new CharArrayWriter();
            PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFTextStripper();
            stripper.writeText(pdfDocument, writer);

            return writer.toString();
        } finally {
            if (pdfDocument != null)
                pdfDocument.close();
        }
    }
}