Advanced PDF parser for Java

Question

I want to extract different content from a PDF file in Java:

• The complete visible text
• images
• links

Is it also possible to get

Answer 1

Yes Alp, iText does offer the functionality you mentioned.

READING PDFS

iText isn't a PDF viewer, iText can't convert PDF to an image, nor can iText be used to print a PDF, but the PdfReader class can give you access to the objects that form a PDF document and to the the content stream of each page. This content stream can be parsed and if the content wasn't added as rasterized text, you can convert a page to plain text. Note that iText doesn't do OCR.

Use com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfReader; class.