Read PDF in selenium: The constructor PDFParser(BufferedInputStream) is undefined

问题

I am getting error

The constructor PDFParser(BufferedInputStream) is undefined

I am trying to read PDF contents using Selenium.

WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://www.axmag.com/download/pdfurl-guide.pdf");
URL TestURL = new URL("http://www.axmag.com/download/pdfurl-guide.pdf");
BufferedInputStream TestFile = new BufferedInputStream(TestURL.openStream());
PDFParser TestPDF = new PDFParser(TestFile);
TestPDF.parse();
String TestText = new PDFTextStripper().getText(TestPDF.getPDDocument());
System.out.println(TestText);
Assert.assertTrue(TestText.contains("Open the setting.xml, you can see it is like this"));

Can anyone please help?

回答1:

I got the same Propblem you have faced. The problem is due to using (Apache PDFBox 2.0.0 API) jar Files. Remove them from build path and use (Apache PDFBox 1.8.11 API) as PDFParser class in 2.0 doesn't have PDFParser(BufferedInputStream args) Constructor. But 1.8 has PDFParser(InputStream args) Constructor. So it will Definately Solve your Problem.

I will also share my code. if you need Help you can take from that.

InputStream is = new FileInputStream(getLatestFile);
        PDFParser parser = new PDFParser(is);
        parser.parse();
        String output=new PDFTextStripper().getText(parser.getPDDocument());
        System.out.println(output);
        parser.getPDDocument().close();

回答2:

The best code for PDFBox 2.0.2 (also works in 1.8.*) would be this - you only need to call PDDocument.load() to open a PDF file:

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://www.axmag.com/download/pdfurl-guide.pdf");
URL url = new URL("http://www.axmag.com/download/pdfurl-guide.pdf");
BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(url.openStream());
PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load(bis);
String text = new PDFTextStripper().getText(doc);
doc.close();
bis.close();
System.out.println(text);
Assert.assertTrue(text.contains("Open the setting.xml, you can see it is like this"));

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39233547/read-pdf-in-selenium-the-constructor-pdfparserbufferedinputstream-is-undefine

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