Getting information of a pdf - string

Question

I have run into a little problem. Basicly i want to exstract from String-data off a pdf file.
More specifik this pdf file
http://www.midttrafik.dk/koereplaner/bybusser/aarhus/bybusser-aarhus/18-mejlbyelev-park-all%C3%A9-skaade-moesgaard/koereplan
So, my problem lays in not knowing, how to get the names, and the times(the pdf is times and locations of bus-stops, street names on the left kolon, and bus ariving times is the rest). the info i want to save is the number befor the street name (1-4), the street name, and all of the times.
translate of some of the stuff on the pdf.
Faste minuttal - just means that bus times is the same for the intival under 'Faste
6.56 - 8.11 - this means that, in this intival followes the under.
so
the buss will stop at 'Elev Skole, Høvej' 56, 11, 26, 41 meaning 6.56, 7.11, 7.26, 7.41, 7.56, 8.11.
I dont think i can desribe my problem any better, so i hope one of you guys will be able to help. i dont need a ready code, just send me in the rigth direaction - tell me what i can do, that migth help, or good patterns to use.
Thanks

Answer 1

You can use the nice PDFBox Library from here to extract the text you want from this pdf file. It works really nice, i used it in one of my last projects to index pfd files for a full text search.
Here is the URL to the project:
http://pdfbox.apache.org/index.html
There you'll find also the documentation and some examples how to extract text from pdf's.
Sample Code:
import java.io.*;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.*;
import org.apache.pdfbox.util.*;
public class LittleExample {
public static void main(String[] args){
PDDocument pd;
BufferedWriter wr;
try {
// this is your pdf from which you would like to extract the text
File input = new File("/home/ottp/pdffiles/1.pdf");
// this is the target file to store the extracted text
File output = new File("/home/ottp/pdffiles/extracts/1.txt");
pd = PDDocument.load(input);
System.out.println(pd.getNumberOfPages());
System.out.println(pd.isEncrypted());
pd.save("CopyOfInvoice.pdf")
PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFTextStripper();
wr = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(output)));
stripper.writeText(pd, wr);
if (pd != null) {
pd.close();
}
// close and flush the output stream
wr.close();
} catch (Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}