How to extract text from PDF using PDFExtStream using Java

Question

Text is not extracted from Sample.pdf file by using pdftextstream-2.6.3.jar

String filePath = "D:\\inbox\\temp\\Sample.pdf";
File document = new File(filePath);
StringBuffer pdfText = new StringBuffer(1024);
com.snowtide.pdf.OutputTarget tgt = new com.snowtide.pdf.OutputTarget(pdfText);
PDFTextStream stream = new PDFTextStream(document);
stream.pipe(tgt);
stream.close();

Answer 1

Earlier today, we released PDFxStream v3.1.2. This is a bugfix release that includes a fix for the issue you encountered here.

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