Leitura de Ficheiro em PDF

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

import java.io.IOException;

import com.asprise.util.pdf.PDFReader;

public static void main( String[] args ){    
	PDFReader reader;
	try {
		reader = new PDFReader(new File("C://ex.pdf"));
			reader.open();

		int pages = reader.getNumberOfPages();
		 
		for(int i=0; i < pages; i++) {
		   String text = reader.extractTextFromPage(i);
		   System.out.println("Page " + i+ ": " + text ); 
		}
		 
		 // perform other operations on pages.
		 
		reader.close(); // finally, close the file.
	} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
		// TODO Auto-generated catch block
		e.printStackTrace();
	}catch (IOException e) {
		// TODO Auto-generated catch block
		e.printStackTrace();
	} // open the file. 

}

Valew

package pdfbox;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.pdfbox.cos.COSDocument;
import org.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser;
import org.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper;

public class LerConteudoPdf {

	/**
	 * @param args
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) {

		File file = new File( "D://PDF/Guia de instalação do Apache Axis 1.4 e Apache Tomcat 6.x.pdf" );  
		FileInputStream is = null;

		try {
			is = new FileInputStream( file );
		} catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
			e1.printStackTrace();
		}

		PDFParser parser = null;
		try {
			parser = new PDFParser( is );
			
			parser.parse();  
			COSDocument cosDoc = parser.getDocument();  

			PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFTextStripper();  
			String docText = stripper.getText( new PDDocument( cosDoc ) );

		}  catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

}

package pdfbox;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser;
import org.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper;

public class PdfParser {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		PdfParser pdfParser = new PdfParser();
		
		pdfParser.setEnderecoRecurso("D://PDF/Guia de instalação do Apache Axis 1.4 e Apache Tomcat 6.x.pdf");
		String s = pdfParser.getConteudo();

		System.out.println(s);
	}
	
	/***
	* Extract the content from the given PDF file. As a side effect most other fields are set too.
	*
	* @see org.zilverline.extractors.AbstractExtractor#getContent(java.io.File)
	*/
	private String enderecoRecurso;

	public void setEnderecoRecurso(String enderecoRecurso)
	{
		this.enderecoRecurso = enderecoRecurso; //caminho do arquivo
	}

	public String getConteudo()
	{

		File f = new File(this.enderecoRecurso);
		FileInputStream is = null;
		
		try	{
			is = new FileInputStream(f);
		} 
		catch(IOException e) {
			System.out.println("ERRO: " + e.getMessage());
			return null;
		}
	
		PDDocument pdfDocument = null;
		try {
			PDFParser parser = new PDFParser(is);

			parser.parse();

			pdfDocument = parser.getPDDocument();

			PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFTextStripper();

			return stripper.getText(pdfDocument);
		}
		catch (IOException e) {
			return "ERRO: Can't open stream" + e;
		}
		catch (Throwable e)	{
			// catch this, since we need to close the resources
			return "ERRO: An error occurred while getting contents from PDF\n" + e;
		}
		finally {
			if (pdfDocument != null) {
				try {
					pdfDocument.close();
				}
				catch (IOException e) {
					return "ERRO: Can't close pdf." + e;
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFTextStripper();