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pdfbox - retrieve text and document information

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FileInputStream stream = new FileInputStream(new File(filepath));
PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(stream);
if (document.isEncrypted()) {
    try {
        document.decrypt("");
    } catch(Exception e) {
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
    }
}

// get document information (Title, Subject, Keywords, etc.)
PDDocumentInformation info = document.getDocumentInformation();

// get string containing all text without formatting etc.
PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFTextStripper();
String textContent = stripper.getText(document);

Reference: http://www.pdfbox.org/javadoc/index.html