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Java Program to Extract Content from a PDF
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// Java Program to Extract Content from a PDF

// Importing java input/output classes
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
// Importing Apache POI classes
import org.apache.tika.metadata.Metadata;
import org.apache.tika.parser.ParseContext;
import org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParser;
import org.apache.tika.sax.BodyContentHandler;

// Class 
public class GFG {

	// Main driver method
	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
	{

		// Create a content handler
		BodyContentHandler contenthandler
			= new BodyContentHandler();

		// Create a file in local directory
		File f = new File("C:/extractcontent.pdf");

		// Create a file input stream
		// on specified path with the created file
		FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream(f);

		// Create an object of type Metadata to use
		Metadata data = new Metadata();

		// Create a context parser for the pdf document
		ParseContext context = new ParseContext();

		// PDF document can be parsed using the PDFparser
		// class
		PDFParser pdfparser = new PDFParser();

		// Method parse invoked on PDFParser class
		pdfparser.parse(fstream, contenthandler, data,
						context);

		// Printing the contents of the pdf document
		// using toString() method in java
		System.out.println("Extracting contents :"
						+ contenthandler.toString());
	}
}