PDFBox for processing pdf in android

Question

i am trying to use pdfbox lib into my android app but im getting

 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument

this error .as i'm developing commercial app i can not use other Lib like itext .So my question is can we use PDfBox in android.

here is my code:-

PDFParser parser = null;
    String parsedText = null;
    PDFTextStripper pdfStripper;
    PDDocument pdDoc = null;
    COSDocument cosDoc = null;
    PDDocumentInformation pdDocInfo;
    try {
          f =new  File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()+File.separator+"Download"+File.separator+"Services.pdf");

         if(f.exists()){
             System.out.println("---------exists-----------");
         }else{
             System.out.println("------NOT----exists----------");
         }
         parser = new PDFParser(new FileInputStream(f));
    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println("Unable to open PDF Parser.");
        System.out.println("-----------------------error|"+e.toString());
    }

    try {
        parser.parse();
        cosDoc = parser.getDocument();
        pdfStripper = new PDFTextStripper();
        pdDoc = new PDDocument(cosDoc);//here i'm getting exception

        //pdDoc = PDDocument.load(f, false);

        parsedText = pdfStripper.getText(pdDoc);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println("-----------------------error|"+e.toString());
        System.out.println("An exception occured in parsing the PDF Document.");
        e.printStackTrace();
        try {
            if (cosDoc != null) cosDoc.close();
            if (pdDoc != null) pdDoc.close();
        } catch (Exception e1) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }
    System.out.println("Done.");
    System.out.println("-----------------------parsedText|"+parsedText);

using PDFBox 0.7.3 jar

@Vincent i have posted code just check it – Prachi Mar 14 '12 at 08:20 — Prachi, Mar 14 '12 at 08:20

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 22 '12 at 13:19

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It seems that PDFBox is depending on awt and swing classes that are not available on Android devices.

Therefor you can not use PDFBox on Android.

answered Jun 22 '12 at 13:19

Janusz

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 10 '12 at 21:43

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NoClassDefFoundError is thrown when the JVM can't load a class.
As the javadoc says
Have you included the pdfbox library on classpath during compilation?

answered Apr 10 '12 at 21:43

Shyba

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@curious_mind See [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8980668/how-to-add-pdfbox-to-an-android-project) . Is it the same error? – Shyba Apr 11 '12 at 16:56

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 06 '14 at 04:06

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If you only need to extract text from PDF document in Android , then use this https://github.com/RatheeshRavindran/PDFBoxLight I recently did the porting of PDFBox to Android but please note that this still in Beta.

answered Jun 06 '14 at 04:06

ratheesh

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PDFBox for processing pdf in android

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