Java Program to Extract Content from a TXT document
Last Updated :
20 Jul, 2021
Java class< file using the Apache Tika library is used. For document type detection and content extraction from various file formats, it uses various document parsers and document type detection techniques to detect and extract data. It provides a single generic API for parsing different file formats. All these parser libraries are encapsulated in a single interface called the Parser interface. Download Tika Foremost.
BodyContentHandler is an in-built class that creates a handler for the text, which writes these XHTML body character events and stores them in an internal string buffer. It is inherited from the parent class ContentHandlerDecorator in Java. The specified text can be retrieved using the method ContentHandlerDecorator.toString() provided by the parent class. ParseContext class is a component of the Java package org.apache.tika.parser, which is used to parse context and pass it on to the Tika parsers. TXTParser is an in-built package that provides a class TXTParser, which parses the contents of text documents. It extracts the contents of a text Document stored within paragraphs, strings, and tables (without invoking tabular boundaries). It can be used to parse encrypted documents too if the password is specified as an argument.
Java supports multiple in-built classes and packages to extract and access the content from a PDF document. The following classes are used in the extraction of the content:
Procedure:
- Create a content handler.
- Create a TXT file at the local directory in the system.
- Now, create a FileInputStream having the same path as that of the above txt file created.
- Create a content parser using a metadata-type object for the document.
- The document is now parsed using the TXT parser class.
- Print the content of the TXT file as created above to illustrate the extraction of content in the above document.
Example:
Java
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.tika.exception.TikaException;
import org.apache.tika.metadata.Metadata;
import org.apache.tika.parser.ParseContext;
import org.apache.tika.parser.txt.TXTParser;
import org.apache.tika.sax.BodyContentHandler;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
public class GFG {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
BodyContentHandler handler
= new BodyContentHandler();
FileInputStream fstream
= new FileInputStream( new File( "C:/test.txt" ));
Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
ParseContext pcontext = new ParseContext();
TXTParser TexTParser = new TXTParser();
TexTParser.parse(fstream, handler, metadata,
pcontext);
System.out.println( "Extracting contents :"
+ contenthandler.toString());
}
}
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Output: It is returned as a file which is as follows:
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