ExtractText
Description
This application will extract all text from the given PDF document.
usage: java org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText [OPTIONS] <PDF file> [Text file]
| Command Line Parameter | Type | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| -password <password> | string | None | The password to the PDF document. |
| -encoding <output encoding> | string | default encoding | The encoding type of the text file, e.g. ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, UTF-16BE. |
| -console | boolean | false | Send text to console instead of file. |
| -html | boolean | false | Output in HTML format instead of raw text. |
| -sort | boolean | false | Sort the text before writing |
| -ignoreBeads | boolean | false | Disables the separation by beads. |
| -force | boolean | false | Enables pdfbox to ignore corrupt objects. |
| -startPage <start page> | integer | 1 | The first page to extract, one based. |
| -endPage <end page> | integer | Integer.MAX_INT | The last page to extract, one based. |