Quick and Dirty way to extract names our out of a PDF file and into a CSV file. Inspired (copied) from http://thottingal.in/blog/2009/06/24/pdfbox-extract-text-from-pdf/

pdf extracter

package com.aaronheld;


import org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class Main {
    static String name;
    static String add;
    static String number;

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        String text     = pdftoText(args[0]);
        String[] lines  = text.split("\n");

        Pattern reName = Pattern.compile("^(.+) Call Resu.*");
        Pattern reAdd = Pattern.compile("^(.+) Not Home .*");
        Pattern reNumber = Pattern.compile("^(.+) \\d\\d \\w \\w oRe.*");

        Matcher m;

        for(String line: lines){
            System.out.println(line);
        }

        System.out.println("**********************************************");
        System.out.println("");


        for(String line: lines){
            m = reName.matcher(line);
            if (m.find()){
                if (add != null) printline();
                name =  m.group(1);
                add = null;
                number = null;
            }
            m = reAdd.matcher(line);
            if (m.find()){
                add =  m.group(1);
            }
            m = reNumber.matcher(line);
            if (m.find()){
                number =  m.group(1);
            }
        }
        if (add != null) printline();

        System.out.println();
    }

    static void printline(){
        String output = String.format("\"%s\",\"%s\",\"%s\"", name, add, number);
        System.out.println(output);
    }
    static String pdftoText(String fileName){
        PDFParser parser;
        String parsedText = null;;
        PDFTextStripper pdfStripper = null;
        PDDocument pdDoc = null;
        COSDocument cosDoc = null;
        File file = new File(fileName);
        if (!file.isFile()) {
            System.err.println("File " + fileName + " does not exist.");
            return null;
        }
        try {
            parser = new PDFParser(new FileInputStream(file));
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println("Unable to open PDF Parser. " + e.getMessage());
            return null;
        }
        try {
            parser.parse();
            cosDoc = parser.getDocument();
            pdfStripper = new PDFTextStripper();
            pdDoc = new PDDocument(cosDoc);
            pdfStripper.setStartPage(1);
            parsedText = pdfStripper.getText(pdDoc);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err
                    .println("An exception occured in parsing the PDF Document."
                            + e.getMessage());
        } finally {
            try {
                if (cosDoc != null)
                    cosDoc.close();
                if (pdDoc != null)
                    pdDoc.close();
            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        return parsedText;

    }
}