I am using Apache Tika 1.14 and pdf box 2.0.5. When I try to extract the content from a pdf document, it is returning empty string.
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.tika.Tika;
import org.apache.tika.exception.TikaException;
public class Test {
public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException, TikaException{
String filePath = "sample.pdf";
Tika tika = new Tika();
String content = tika.parseToString(new File(filePath));
System.out.println(content);
}
}
Following are the maven dependencies I am using.
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.tika/tika-core -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tika</groupId>
<artifactId>tika-core</artifactId>
<version>1.14</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.pdfbox/pdfbox -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.pdfbox</groupId>
<artifactId>pdfbox</artifactId>
<version>2.0.5</version>
</dependency>
You need to add 'tika-parsers' library to your project. Add following dependency and retry.
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.tika/tika-parsers -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tika</groupId>
<artifactId>tika-parsers</artifactId>
<version>1.14</version>
</dependency>