usage error - newbie

[Simon Kiss <si...@yahoo.ca>]

Dear colleagues, I'm a complete newcomer to java programming.  I've =
developed quite a bit of facility in programming in R, some familiarity =
with basic unix commands (sed, grep and awk) and I'm very interested in =
being able to use pdfBox to extract text from .pdf files. =20
I'm working on Mac Os 10.6.6; I downloaded the pre-built .jar file in my =
home directory and I'm trying this command
java -jar pdfbox-app-1.5.0.jar org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText =
geography.pdf geography.txt

But I get the following error

usage: java pdfbox-app-x.y.z.jar <command> <args..>
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Yours, Simon Kiss
*********************************
Simon J. Kiss, PhD
Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
73 George Street
Brantford, Ontario, Canada
N3T 2C9
Cell: +1 519 761 7606

Re: usage error - newbie

[David Newton <da...@wrycan.com>]

I actually did this as well, when I first looked at this a couple of 
weeks ago. If the JAR and your PDF are the directory you're running it 
from, try just:

java -jar pdfbox-app-1.5.0.jar ExtractText geography.pdf geography.txt


Simon Kiss wrote:
> Dear colleagues, I'm a complete newcomer to java programming.  I've =
> developed quite a bit of facility in programming in R, some familiarity =
> with basic unix commands (sed, grep and awk) and I'm very interested in =
> being able to use pdfBox to extract text from .pdf files. =20
> I'm working on Mac Os 10.6.6; I downloaded the pre-built .jar file in my =
> home directory and I'm trying this command
> java -jar pdfbox-app-1.5.0.jar org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText =
> geography.pdf geography.txt
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> But I get the following error
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> usage: java pdfbox-app-x.y.z.jar <command> <args..>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> Yours, Simon Kiss
> *********************************
> Simon J. Kiss, PhD
> Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
> 73 George Street
> Brantford, Ontario, Canada
> N3T 2C9
> Cell: +1 519 761 7606
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