Extract text from PDF files tracked in a text file or git repository and export to a CSV. Text will be extracted specified by regular expression.
###Simple as simple. The following command will by default extract all email addresses from the PDFs listed in the "pdffiles.txt" file.
java -jar pdf-library.jar "pdffiles.txt"
Given a text file "pdffiles.txt" with the following data:
\full\path\to1.pdf
\full\path\to2.pdf
\full\path\to3.pdf
The program will find all occurences of emails (using the regular expression "\b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,}\b") and output the data to a CSV file with following format. output.csv
\full\path\to1.pdf, email, [email protected]
\full\path\to2.pdf, email, [email protected]
\full\path\to2.pdf, email, [email protected]
\full\path\to3.pdf, email, [email protected]
###Options
####-o Specify an outfile. Default is the current directory of the input+output.csv.
####-m Specify your own mapping file. The mapping file is a comma separated list containing regular expression you would like to extract from the PDF.
For example, provided the file mapping.txt with the following information:
"myname", "Adam Peretti"
"phonenumber", "^(?:(?:\+?1\s*(?:[.-]\s*)?)?(?:\(\s*([2-9]1[02-9]|[2-9][02-8]1|[2-9][02-8][02-9])\s*\)|([2-9]1[02-9]|[2-9][02-8]1|[2-9][02-8][02-9]))\s*(?:[.-]\s*)?)?([2-9]1[02-9]|[2-9][02-9]1|[2-9][02-9]{2})\s*(?:[.-]\s*)?([0-9]{4})(?:\s*(?:#|x\.?|ext\.?|extension)\s*(\d+))?$"
Running
java -jar pdf-library.jar "\path\to\input\text\file.txt" -m "\path\to\mapping.txt"
Will extract all unique occurrences of "Adam Peretti" and phones numbers from each of the PDF files. The output will look something like this:
\full\path\to1.pdf, myname, Adam Peretti
\full\path\to2.pdf, myname, Adam Peretti
\full\path\to2.pdf, phonenumber, 555-555-5555
\full\path\to3.pdf, phonenumber, 555-5555
\full\path\to3.pdf, phonenumber, 555-5465