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By V. Subhash

This article is based on a source code example sent by Gnostice DevTools member L. Santhanam to a customer who wanted to load PDF files stored on a website (Intranet or Internet).

PDFOne (for Java™) can load PDF documents from files, streams, and byte arrays. So, the trick here is to read the file off the Net and store it in a file using Java API. To read a Web resource, you need to use the classes in java.net package. Here is what you need to do:

• Set a java.net.URL object with the address of the PDF document.
• Test if the content type of the PDF resource reached by the URL object.
• If the content type is that of a PDF document, read the input stream of the PDF and save it to a file output stream.
• Use PDFOne to process the PDF document saved in the file.

import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.ConnectException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;

import com.gnostice.pdfone.PdfDocument;


public class Read_PDF_From_URL {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

    URL url1 =
      new URL("http://www.gnostice.com/downloads/Gnostice_PathQuest.pdf");

    byte[] ba1 = new byte[1024];
    int baLength;
    FileOutputStream fos1 = new FileOutputStream("download.pdf");

    try {
      // Contacting the URL
      System.out.print("Connecting to " + url1.toString() + " ... ");
      URLConnection urlConn = url1.openConnection();

      // Checking whether the URL contains a PDF
      if (!urlConn.getContentType().equalsIgnoreCase("application/pdf")) {
          System.out.println("FAILED.\n[Sorry. This is not a PDF.]");
      } else {
        try {

          // Read the PDF from the URL and save to a local file
          InputStream is1 = url1.openStream();
          while ((baLength = is1.read(ba1)) != -1) {
              fos1.write(ba1, 0, baLength);
          }
          fos1.flush();
          fos1.close();
          is1.close();

          // Load the PDF document and display its page count
          System.out.print("DONE.\nProcessing the PDF ... ");
          PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument();
          try {
            doc.load("download.pdf");
            System.out.println("DONE.\nNumber of pages in the PDF is " +
                               doc.getPageCount());
            doc.close();
          } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("FAILED.\n[" + e.getMessage() + "]");
          }

        } catch (ConnectException ce) {
          System.out.println("FAILED.\n[" + ce.getMessage() + "]\n");
        }
      }

    } catch (NullPointerException npe) {
      System.out.println("FAILED.\n[" + npe.getMessage() + "]\n");
    }
  }
}

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