如何使用PDFBox将文本提取到JLabel

Question

I haven't been coding for long and decided to write a program that would download the current Official Golf World Rankings in PDF form and then display the top 10 using JLabels.

While the program is able to download the file I have been unable to find out how to extract individuals cells from the table containing the data ie extract "This Week", "Name", "Country" columns to individual arrays.

Could someone please give me some advice on how I would go about doing this?

Answer 1

I recently had to do something similar, my code looks like this (using PDFBox):

PDFParser pdfParser = new PDFParser(new FileInputStream("c:\\temp\\owgr49f2013.pdf"));
pdfParser.parse();
PDDocument pdDocument = pdfParser.getPDDocument();

PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFTextStripper("UTF-8");
stripper.setSortByPosition(false);
stripper.setWordSeparator("###");
System.out.println(stripper.getText(pdDocument));

You'll need to extract the information you need from the resulting text with regular expressions or so.