I've been trying to figure out a way to extract a PDF to TXT so I can read
some information from it.
 
I saw PDFBOX references in the midrange wiki, and several  threads in
archive.midrange.com.
 
I downloaded and extracted PDFBox to /qibm/userdata/Java400/ext, copied the
sample program from the wiki, but it gets an error when I try to run it.  
 
(
http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/PDFBox)
 
This line in the RPG fails:
 
myDocument = PDDocument_new();
 
Message ID . . . . . . :   RNX0301       Severity . . . . . . . :   50
Message type . . . . . :   Escape
Date sent  . . . . . . :   03/05/12      Time sent  . . . . . . :   10:27:30
 
Message . . . . :   Java exception received when calling Java method.
Cause . . . . . :   RPG procedure JAVAPDFR in program MYLIB/JAVAPDFR
received 
  Java exception "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
  org/apache/pdfbox/pdmodel/PDDocument" when calling method "<init>" with
  signature "()V" in class "org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument".
 
I managed to get the HSSF stuff working by following the docs, so something
Java works on the system.
 
This noob would appreciate any help.
 
Thanks, Jack
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