Read Tamil Text Pdf From Java

[vinoopraj]

Hi All,

I am just trying to read content from a pdf file via java. The Pdf File is in the format of editable text. so i can copy the entire content manually.

I have done this using PDFBox, but the thing what is, i have another language content also in the PDF Format. I cant get the exact content.

When i am reading a normal English PDF file , i can get the entire Content... but when i am reading another language file its displaying like this "???????????"

This is my code

public String getPdfText(String fileName) throws IOException {
        StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
        PDDocument doc = null;
 
        try {
            doc = PDDocument.load(fileName);
           
            PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFTextStripper();
            
            stripper.setStartPage( 1 );
            stripper.setEndPage( Integer.MAX_VALUE );
 
            stripper.writeText(doc, sw);
        } finally {
             if (doc != null) {
                 doc.close();
             }
        }
       return sw.toString();
  }

please help

Thanks in advance
Vinoop

[Eranga]

That's because the relevant font is not installed in your PC. Did you?