gistfile1.java

import com.snowtide.pdf.OutputTarget;
import com.snowtide.pdf.PDFTextStream;
 
public class ExtractTextAllPages {
    public static void main (String[] args)
    {
            String pdfFilePath = args[0];
            PDFTextStream pdfts = new PDFTextStream(pdfFilePath); 
            StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder(1024);
            pdfts.pipe(new OutputTarget(text));
            pdfts.close();
            System.out.printf("The text extracted from %s is:", pdfFilePath);
            System.out.println(text);
        }
}

// Need pdftextstream-2.7.0.jar