Thread: conversion of pdf file to text using itext in java

I have a problem while reading the content from pdf and creating a word document(doc/docx) in byte streams.Generated a word document contains junk characters instead of original text.

Here is my code

 
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
 
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.ContentByteUtils;
import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph;
import com.lowagie.text.rtf.RtfWriter2;
 
public class Check1 {
 
 
 
 public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException, DocumentException {
 
     PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("/home/mujafar/Desktop/NPTEL Transcription Guidelines.pdf");
        int n = reader.getNumberOfPages();
        System.out.println("total no of pages:::"+n);
 
         Document document = new Document();
 
         RtfWriter2.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("/home/mujafar/Desktop/file.docx"));
            System.out.println("file created");
            document.open();
            byte[] bytes;
            for(int i=1;i<=n;i++)
            {
 
            bytes= ContentByteUtils.getContentBytesForPage(reader, i);
 
            String s= new String(bytes);
            document.add(new Paragraph(s));
 
            document.newPage();
 
 
            }
 
            document.close();
 
 }

Thanks for reply. In itextpdf document.add() accepting "String" or "Element" datatype. Thats why i converted byte array to String (i.e 's'), and i passed the 's' to Document.add(new Paragraph(s)); But content in word document in junk characters instead of original text.Any help appreciated.

yes.how to get the content perfectly.