Convert PDF to text

Convert PDF page to text file

You can convert PDF document to TXT file with Aspose.PDF for Android via Java. You should use Visit method of TextAbsorber class for resolve this task.

The following code snippet explains how to extract the texts from the particular pages.

public void convertPDFPagesToTXT() {
        // Open document
        try {
            document = new Document(inputStream);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            resultMessage.setText(e.getMessage());
            return;
        }

        TextAbsorber ta = new TextAbsorber();
        int[] pages = new int[] { 1, 3, 4 };

        for (int page : pages) {
            ta.visit(document.getPages().get_Item(page));
        }
        File txtFileName = new File(fileStorage, "PDF-to-Text.txt");

        // Save the extracted text in text file
        BufferedWriter writer;
        try {
            writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(txtFileName));
            writer.write(ta.getText());
            writer.close();
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            resultMessage.setText(e.getMessage());
            return;
        }
        resultMessage.setText(R.string.success_message);
    }