Search text in PDF files using Java (Apache Lucene and Apache PDFBox)

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I came across this requirement recently, to find whether a specific word is present or not in a PDF file. Initially I thought this is a very simple requirement and created a simple application in Java, that would first extract text from PDF files and then do a linear character matching like mystring.contains(mysearchterm) == true. It did give me the expected output, but

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