[jira] [Comment Edited] (PDFBOX-3581) PDFTextStripper not working with multiple threads

["Dmitri Russu (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Dmitri Russu edited comment on PDFBOX-3581 at 11/19/16 2:57 PM:
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no Exception, and it is stopping working when arrive on PDFTextStripper pDFTextStripper = new PDFTextStripper();
{code}
 private void scanFolderFiles(File scanDirectory) {
        File[] filesScan = scanDirectory.listFiles();

        if ( filesScan.length > 0 ) {
            int iterator=0;
            for (final File fileEntry : filesScan) {

           
                if (fileEntry.isDirectory()) {
                    scanFolderFiles(fileEntry);
                } else {
                    try {
                       new PDFExtractThread(fileEntry).start();
                    }
                    catch (Exception e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    }
                }

                iterator++;
            }
        }
    }




//////////////////// Method used for text extracting

  public void pdfBoxExtractText() throws Exception {
        //Retrieving text from PDF document
        PDFTextStripper pdfStripper = new PDFTextStripper();
        System.out.println(this.fileName);
        FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter(this.fileName+".txt");
        BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(fileWriter);
        String text = pdfStripper.getText(this.document);

        System.out.println(text);

        writer.write(text);
        writer.close();
    }

{code}



was (Author: dmitri_russu):
no Exception, and it is stopping working when arrive on PDFTextStripper pDFTextStripper = new PDFTextStripper();

 private void scanFolderFiles(File scanDirectory) {
        File[] filesScan = scanDirectory.listFiles();

        if ( filesScan.length > 0 ) {
            int iterator=0;
            for (final File fileEntry : filesScan) {

           
                if (fileEntry.isDirectory()) {
                    scanFolderFiles(fileEntry);
                } else {
                    try {
                       new PDFExtractThread(fileEntry).start();
                    }
                    catch (Exception e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    }
                }

                iterator++;
            }
        }
    }




//////////////////// Method used for text extracting

  public void pdfBoxExtractText() throws Exception {
        //Retrieving text from PDF document
        PDFTextStripper pdfStripper = new PDFTextStripper();
        System.out.println(this.fileName);
        FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter(this.fileName+".txt");
        BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(fileWriter);
        String text = pdfStripper.getText(this.document);

        System.out.println(text);

        writer.write(text);
        writer.close();
    }




> PDFTextStripper not working with multiple threads
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-3581
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3581
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Text extraction
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.3
>         Environment: Ubuntu 15.1
>            Reporter: Dmitri Russu
>              Labels: multithreading
>
> Hi, I try to use pdfbox to extract text from a list of files, the problem is PDFTextStripper does not work on thread mode, when I try to use it in multythread nothing happens. it is a bug or limitation? 
> could you help me ?
>  thanks



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