pdf2text under windows xp

["Toeroek, Laszlo (EXT)" <la...@siemens.com>]

Hi

I've been trying to do text extraction under windows xp. I downloaded pdfbox-app-1.3.1.jar<http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/pdfbox/1.3.1/pdfbox-app-1.3.1.jar> and typed:

java -jar pdfbox-app-x.y.z.jar org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText mypdf.pdf mytext.txt

But I got "usage: java pdfbox-app-x.y.z.jar <command> <args..>".

So I tried running it again without the -jar option but I got

"Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: pdfbox-app-1/3/1/jar"

What am I doing wrong?

Kind regards,

Las

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Re: pdf2text under windows xp

[Jukka Zitting <jz...@adobe.com>]

Hi,

On 08/12/10 11:30, Toeroek, Laszlo (EXT) wrote:
> I've been trying to do text extraction under windows xp. I downloaded
> pdfbox-app-1.3.1.jar and typed:
>
> java -jar pdfbox-app-x.y.z.jar org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText
>     mypdf.pdf mytext.txt

Use the following command:

     java -jar pdfbox-app-1.3.1.jar ExtractText ...

This will start up a generic PDFBox command line tool that uses the 
first command line argument (in this case "ExtractText") to select which 
utility tool to run.

You can also invoke the ExtractText or other utility classes directly 
like this:

     java -cp pdfbox-app-1.3.1.jar org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText ...

Note that now we're using the pdfbox-app jar as just a normal classpath 
component instead of as a runnable jar, so you need to explicitly 
specify the full name of the main class.

BR,

Jukka Zitting