ADDING PDF SUPPORT TO JAVA

JPedal is written in 100% Java and does not need additional platform-specific native libraries to be installed. If it runs Java 8 or above, it runs JPedal.

JPedal allows you to search PDF files for any text String (and it can allow use Regular expressions). Search one
page or the whole Document and find any instances of the text – JPedal takes care of all the decoding and grouping
of the PDF data.

Searching PDF Files can be done in the Viewer or there is a separate example
to search as a server process. Alternatively you can convert a PDF into a whole list of keywords (with locations)
and provide a database index of the PDF file text content.

Key Features

Search for any text string
100% Java and multi-platform
Fully automated
Support for regular expressions
Search all document pages or specific page range
XFA support
Highly configurable
Single Jar
Lots of tutorials and
monthly new release

Quick Start

Here is a quick snippet of code which will allow you to find text in a PDF:

FindTextInRectangle extract=new FindTextInRectangle("C:/pdfs/mypdf.pdf");
 //extract.setPassword("password");
 if (extract.openPDFFile()) {
      int pageCount=extract.getPageCount();
      for (int page=1; page<=pageCount; page++) {
          float[] coords=extract.findTextOnPage(page, "textToFind", SearchType.MUTLI_LINE_RESULTS ) ;
      }
 }
 extract.closePDFfile();

FindTextInRectangle extract=new FindTextInRectangle("C:/pdfs/mypdf.pdf");

//extract.setPassword("password");

if (extract.openPDFFile()) {

int pageCount=extract.getPageCount();

for (int page=1; page<=pageCount; page++) {

float[] coords=extract.findTextOnPage(page, "textToFind", SearchType.MUTLI_LINE_RESULTS ) ;

}

extract.closePDFfile();

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Q & A

Q: Do you have any example Java code for PDF Text Search?

You can find a detailed tutorial on using JPedal for PDF text search by visiting this Tutorial.