Convert PDF to TXT via Java

PDF to TXT Java conversion. Programmers can use this example code to export PDF to TXT within any Web or Desktop Java-based Application.

Convert PDF to TXT in Java

How to convert PDF to TXT? You can easily convert programmatically a document from PDF to TXT format with a modern document-processing Java API. Use just a few lines of Java code to convert files with high quality. The Aspose.PDF library will allow any developer to efficiently solve the tasks of converting PDF to TXT using Java.

For a more detailed description of the code snippet and other possible conversion formats, see the Documentation pages. Also, you can check the other conversions of formats, which are supported by our library.

In order to convert PDF to TXT, we’ll use Aspose.PDF for Java API which is a feature-rich, powerful, and easy-to-use conversion API for Java platform. You can download its latest version directly from Maven and install it within your Maven-based project by adding the following configurations to the pom.xml. Check the details of Installing the Library on the Documentation pages.

Repository

<repository>
    <id>AsposeJavaAPI</id>
    <name>Aspose Java AP</name>
    <url>https://releases.aspose.com/java/repo/</url>
</repository>

Dependency

<dependency>
<groupId>com.aspose</groupId>
<artifactId>aspose-pdf</artifactId>
<version>version of aspose-pdf API</version>
</dependency>

How to Convert PDF to TXT


Java developers can easily load & convert PDF files to TXT in just a few lines of code.

  1. Initialize a new Document
  2. Call Document.Process method with page index & output file path as parameters
  3. Save the output TXT file

Here is an example that demonstrates how to convert PDF to TXT in Java. You can follow these easy steps to convert your PDF file to TXT format. First, upload your PDF file and then simply save it as a TXT file. You can use fully qualified filenames for both PDF reading and TXT writing. The output TXT content and formatting will be identical to the original PDF document.

Example: Convert PDF to TXT via Java

This sample code shows PDF to TXT Java Conversion

Input file:

File not added

Output format:

TXT

Output file:

// load PDF with an instance of Document
Document document = new Document("template.pdf");
// save document in TXT format
document.save("output.txt", SaveFormat.Txt);

Convert PDF to TXT using Java

Aspose.PDF for Java API is a library that enables developers to add PDF processing capabilities to their applications. It can be used to build any type of 32-bit and 64-bit applications to generate or read, convert and manipulate PDF files without the use of Adobe Acrobat. Aspose.PDF for Java allows developers to insert tables, graphs, images, hyperlinks, custom fonts - and more - into PDF documents. Moreover, it is also possible to compress PDF. Aspose.PDF for Java provides excellent security features to develop secure PDF files.

You can find more information about Aspose.PDF for Java API on documentation and examples on how to use API. Some of the key features of Aspose.PDF for Java API include support for various file formats including HTML, XFA, TXT, PCL, XML, XPS and image file formats, support for various PDF versions, and extensive hyperlink functionality.