XI: Read data from PDF file in Sender Adapter

[kkram]

In my previous weblog (XI: Generate PDF file out of file adapter), I had discussed how to generate a PDF file out of receiver adapter. In this weblog, we will see how to read a PDF file and convert it to XML document, by using a module processor exit bean in the sender file adapter

h5. Design In our example, we will use an open source utility called PDFBox (http://www.pdfbox.org) to extract text information from a PDF file. h5. Configuration The above module parses the PDF file and frames a XML document with the text data in node "TextData". This module bean will be called in the sender adapter as shown.