How to call the pdf file out using java program?

Answer:

Here is a sample program:

Java Code:

{
    public static void main(String args[])       //main function
    {
        try                                      //try statement
        {
            Runtime.getRuntime().exec("rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler " + "c:\\chart.pdf");   //open the file chart.pdf

        } catch (Exception e)                    //catch any exceptions here
          {
              System.out.println("Error" + e );  //print the error
          }
    }
}
 

Or
 

Using PDFBox to read the text from the PDF file:

Java Code:

I re-tested the code, and is working fine. Please check out what I have written:

import java.io.File;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper;

public class PdfBoxTest
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
try
{
PDDocument pddDocument=PDDocument.load(new File("a.pdf"));
PDFTextStripper textStripper=new PDFTextStripper();
System.out.println(textStripper.getText(pddDocumen t));
pddDocument.close();
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

In the classpath, I have included the following jar files: 

1) pdfbox-1.2.1.jar
2) fontbox-1.2.1.jar
3) commons-logging-1.1.1.jar

Note:

I am not sure about the latest version of pdfbox, I guess it should be 1.2.1. 

If you are getting error, it is probably the jar file not being set in the classpath, as the exception is purely related to inability to find the class file, it means the jar file is not being located at that location. Rest of the things will go fine if your jar file is properly recognized. 

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