How can I determine if a file is a PDF file?

Question

I am using PdfBox in Java to extract text from PDF files. Some of the input files provided are not valid and PDFTextStripper halts on these files. Is there a clean way to ch

Answer 1

You have to try this....

public boolean isPDF(File file){
    file = new File("Demo.pdf");
    Scanner input = new Scanner(new FileReader(file));
    while (input.hasNextLine()) {
        final String checkline = input.nextLine();
        if(checkline.contains("%PDF-")) { 
            // a match!
            return true;
        }  
    }
    return false;
}