NiFi 1.11.4
Hi there,
I found an interesting solution for extracting text and images from pdf files with ExecuteScript (Groovy):
The Groovy Script starts with
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.*
import org.apache.pdfbox.util.*
def flowFile = session.get()
if(!flowFile) return
def s = new PDFTextStripper()
With PDFBox 1.8.16 the script run without errors, but the PDFTextStripper is always empty (and yes: the pdf files contains text, not images)
With PDFBox 2.0.19 the script didn't run:
Module Directory for pdfbox 2.0
29.04.2020 12:56 2.715.618 pdfbox-2.0.19.jar
29.04.2020 19:36 257.911 pdfbox-debugger-2.0.19.jar
29.04.2020 19:36 81.206 pdfbox-tools-2.0.19.jar
29.04.2020 19:36 247.912 preflight-2.0.19.jar
29.04.2020 19:36 132.182 xmpbox-2.0.19.jar
29.04.2020 19:36 1.561.265 fontbox-2.0.19.jar
error
Caused by: org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException:
startup failed:
Script9.groovy: 18: unable to resolve class PDFTextStripper
@ line 18, column 9.def
s = new PDFTextStripper()
Any idea, what is missing?
Thanx Frank
The PDFTextStripper has been refactored to a new package. In pdfbox 1.8.x it indeed was in org.apache.pdfbox.util but since 2.0.0 it is in org.apache.pdfbox.text.
Thus, you need to adjust your import statements for use with pdfbox 2.x.