Having done some basic tutorials, I started making my first real android app in eclipse. I want this app to check if the text in an EditText matches the text on a PDFpage (this one: http://www.augustinianum.eu/roosterwijzigingen/14062012.pdf (it contains my school’s schedule changes)). I’ve found out how to make the app check if the text in the EditText matches a string (with the method contains()), so now the only thing I need to do is to download all of the text of that PDFpage to a string. But I have no idea how to. Or is there maybe a method which I can check with if a PDFpage contains a certain word without downloading the entire website to a string?
Thank You!
A PDF is not a text-file, it is a binary file. Therefore you should not download the data into a string but into a byte array. Then you must extract the text data from the PDF using some PDF library. In that text you then can search your keyword.
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