How to parse PDF File

[Priya Khamitkar]

I want to create one component which takes pdf or word file as a input and create xml file as a output, i want to know which java API can useful to do this.

[Manoj Maniraj]

PDFBox may help you.

[Deepak Bala]

Manoj Maniraj wrote:PDFBox may help you.

The project looks very promising and it is in its early stages. I know of commercial products that can do this, but are you looking to do something specific with this XML ? Is text extraction from PDF ok ? PDFBox seems to support that. Or do you need some sort of meaningful hierarchical data ?

[Jesper de Jong]

There are other APIs for working with PDF files. iText is another well-known Java PDF library.

[Ravi Vakka]

I remember we used Apache FOP to convert XML files to PDF and PDF files to XML in our earlier project.
More info can be found at :
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/

Let me know if this is the one you are looking for

[Deepak Bala]

Ravi Vakka wrote:I remember we used Apache FOP to convert XML files to PDF and PDF files to XML in our earlier project.
More info can be found at :
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/

Let me know if this is the one you are looking for

To my knowledge PDF -> XML is not possible with FOP

[Maneesh Godbole]

Moving to a more appropriate forum

[Priya Khamitkar]

I have used PDFBox.And my program is working fine.
Thanks to everyone