lucab85/pdf-processor

Export text in PDF files to CSV using pattern matching.

PDF processor

Java desktop application to extract a sting matching a pattern from a PDF file. Every PDF input files is transliterated to text (Apache PDFBox) and then, using pattern matching, you are able to search anything you want. The output is a CSV file (Apache Commons CSV) with patterns in columns and data of the file in rows.

Usage

1. Setup the required library
2. Prepare the .property file
3. Launch the application

Description of property file fields

• debug=false - [true/false] enable/disable debug print messages
• rotation_degree=0 - [0-360] rotate the PDF input file of the specified degrees before transliterate it
• TXT_enabled=false - [true/false] enable/disable TXT transliterated text file creation (same filename of source)
• TXT_encoding=UTF-8 - encoding of TXT file
• TXT_append=false - [true/false] overwrite (default) or append
• ETL_from=\r\n|\r|\n - [regex] transform the selected text with pattern
• ETL_to=**\ ** - [text] transform the selected text to text
• filename_entry=filename - CSV column with filename
• CSV_filename=output.csv - output filename
• patterns_prefix=pattern. - prefix of the following patterns
• pattern.1=[text[A-z]*, text2[A-z]*] - list of regex to match in order for column "1"
• copyPDF=true - [true/false] enable/disable copyPDF feature
• PDFformat=[1, 2] - [list] copyPDF: filename format (use field 1 and 2)
• copyPDFsep=**\ ** - [text] copyPDF: filename fiels separator (default space)
• copyPDFETL_from=/ - [regex] copyPDF: replace source regex (default dash not allowed in filename)
• copyPDFETL_to=. - [text] copyPDF: replace destination string (default dot)

Dependency

Main library components:

• Java SE version 1.7
• Apache PDFBox 2.0.6+
• Apache Commons CSV 1.4+

Complete list of "lib/*.jar":

libs/commons-csv-1.4.jar
libs/commons-io-2.5.jar
libs/commons-logging-1.2.jar
libs/fontbox-2.0.6.jar
libs/pdfbox-2.0.6.jar
libs/pdfbox-tools-2.0.6.jar