+1 for Tika. I've been using Tika in conjunction with SOLR for a job search engine I built (www.neekanee.com) and it's really useful for extracting text from PD

+1 for Tika. I've been using Tika in conjunction with SOLR for a job search engine I built (www.neekanee.com) and it's really useful for extracting text from PDFs and .doc files if you're not overly concerned with the structure of the document.