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    hi, I wanna write and application to read a PDF file which is not in English (imagine an Asian or Middle Eastern language), from what kind of packages can I use? how can I do this? can you offer a website with a sample code? thanks in advance


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    Default Re: how to read a PDF file?

    Unfortunately java currently does not have a PDF parser as part of its standard library. I've used Apache's PDFBox in the past and it worked marginally well. Not sure if there are any foreign language constraints to this library however (if it can extract unicode from a PDF file it should be ok)

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    Default Re: how to read a PDF file?

    Quote Originally Posted by copeg View Post
    Unfortunately java currently does not have a PDF parser as part of its standard library. I've used Apache's PDFBox in the past and it worked marginally well. Not sure if there are any foreign language constraints to this library however (if it can extract unicode from a PDF file it should be ok)
    is there anything to read MS Word docs ?

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