Extracting metadata from a Word document

Metadata found in a Word document can be extracted using the Apache PDFBox API. We will demonstrate how this is performed using the Word document created in the recipe, Extracting text from a PDF document. While there are numerous properties available, we will only illustrate how a small subset can be obtained.

Getting ready

To prepare this recipe, we need to do the following:

1. Create a new Maven project.
2. Add the following dependency to the project's POM file:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.pdfbox</groupId>
    <artifactId>pdfbox</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.13</version>
</dependency>

3. Use the Word document created in the recipe...