How to read multiple PDF files (process 2 PDFs at a time) in Talend Big Data Studio

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have a job to read 2 PDF files using tPDFtoText component and then I am comparing those files using tMAP  component. (Snapshot attached)

Challenge here is I have 70,000 such files each from 2 systems. I need to read 1 file each from both sets and then compare. Since this is tedious, I am trying to make my existing job dynamic using concept of context variable.

However, no success here since I am unable to ask it to process 2 files at a time.

This is URGENT!!! Any help will be much appreciated.

Regards,

Shilpa Nayak

[akumar2301]

I suggest you create your own routine to convert PDF to Text . It is not that difficult.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18098400/how-to-get-raw-text-from-pdf-file-using-java

https://www.mkyong.com/java/pdfbox-how-to-read-pdf-file-in-java/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18225774/compare-two-pdf-files-approach-using-java

http://www.testautomationguru.com/introducing-pdfutil-to-compare-pdf-files-extract-resources/

here you can make it dynamic.