how i can extract text from the PDF files,power point files,Ms word files?

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crazyprakash - 26 Oct 2005 07:10 GMT

hi friends,
i need to extract text from the power point files,word
files,pdf files for my application.Is it possible to extract the text
from the those files .If yes plz give solution to this problem.i would
be thankful if u givve solution to this problem

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Roedy Green - 26 Oct 2005 07:22 GMT

On 25 Oct 2005 23:10:44 -0700, "crazyprakash"
<prince.prakash18@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

>hi friends,
> i need to extract text from the power point files,word
>files,pdf files for my application.Is it possible to extract the text
>from the those files .If yes plz give solution to this problem.i would
>be thankful if u givve solution to this problem

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/poi.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/rtf.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/csv.html

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Norb - 26 Oct 2005 13:58 GMT

For PDF, take a look at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfbox

It works very good, though it has a habit of sometimes printing a stack
trace instead of throwing an exception.

Regards
Norb

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Roedy Green - 26 Oct 2005 15:31 GMT

On 25 Oct 2005 23:10:44 -0700, "crazyprakash"
<prince.prakash18@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

> i need to extract text from the power point files,word
>files,pdf files for my application.Is it possible to extract the text
>from the those files .If yes plz give solution to this problem.i would
>be thankful if u givve solution to this problem

http://mindprod.com/jgloss/pdf.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/acrobat.html

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adrian - 30 Oct 2005 11:17 GMT

> hi friends,
> i need to extract text from the power point files,word
> files,pdf files for my application.Is it possible to extract the text
> from the those files .If yes plz give solution to this problem.i would
> be thankful if u givve solution to this problem

itext java API can be used for PDF documents, see
http://www.lowagie.com/iText/

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