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how to read a PDF file?

 
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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

is there anything to read MS Word docs ?
 
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There isn't much you can do with PDFs once they're created; a library like PDFBox will let you extract all the text, although in an unstructured manner (meaning, without layout information).

Apache POI can read DOC and DOCX files.
 
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