PDF to byte array and vice versa

You basically need a helper method to read a stream into memory. This works pretty well:

public static byte[] readFully(InputStream stream) throws IOException
{
    byte[] buffer = new byte[8192];
    ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

    int bytesRead;
    while ((bytesRead = stream.read(buffer)) != -1)
    {
        baos.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
    }
    return baos.toByteArray();
}

Then you'd call it with:

public static byte[] loadFile(String sourcePath) throws IOException
{
    InputStream inputStream = null;
    try 
    {
        inputStream = new FileInputStream(sourcePath);
        return readFully(inputStream);
    } 
    finally
    {
        if (inputStream != null)
        {
            inputStream.close();
        }
    }
}

Don't mix up text and binary data - it only leads to tears.

The problem is that you are calling toString() on the InputStream object itself. This will return a String representation of the InputStream object not the actual PDF document.

You want to read the PDF only as bytes as PDF is a binary format. You will then be able to write out that same byte array and it will be a valid PDF as it has not been modified.

e.g. to read a file as bytes

File file = new File(sourcePath);
InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(file); 
byte[] bytes = new byte[file.length()];
inputStream.read(bytes);

You can do it by using Apache Commons IO without worrying about internal details.

Use org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.readFileToByteArray(File file) which return data of type byte[].

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This worked for me. I haven't used any third-party libraries. Just the ones that are shipped with Java.

import java.io.*;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

public class PDFUtility {

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    /**
     * Converts byte stream into PDF.
     */
    PDFUtility pdfUtility = new PDFUtility();
    byte[] byteStreamPDF = pdfUtility.convertPDFtoByteStream();
    FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream("C:\\Users\\aseem\\Desktop\\BlaFolder\\BlaFolder2\\aseempdf.pdf");
    fileOutputStream.write(byteStreamPDF);
    fileOutputStream.close();
    System.out.println("File written successfully");
}

/**
 * Creates PDF to Byte Stream
 *
 * @return
 * @throws IOException
 */
protected byte[] convertPDFtoByteStream() throws IOException {
    Path path = Paths.get("C:\\Users\\aseem\\aaa.pdf");
    return Files.readAllBytes(path);
}

}

Calling toString() on an InputStream doesn't do what you think it does. Even if it did, a PDF contains binary data, so you wouldn't want to convert it to a string first.

What you need to do is read from the stream, write the results into a ByteArrayOutputStream, then convert the ByteArrayOutputStream into an actual byte array by calling toByteArray():

InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(sourcePath);
ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

int data;
while( (data = inputStream.read()) >= 0 ) {
    outputStream.write(data);
}

inputStream.close();
return outputStream.toByteArray();

Are'nt you creating the pdf file but not actually writing the byte array back? Therefore you cannot open the PDF.

out = new FileOutputStream("D:/ABC_XYZ/1.pdf");
out.Write(b, 0, b.Length);
out.Position = 0;
out.Close();

This is in addition to correctly reading in the PDF to byte array.

I have implemented similiar behaviour in my Application too without fail. Below is my version of code and it is functional.

    byte[] getFileInBytes(String filename) {
    File file  = new File(filename);
    int length = (int)file.length();
    byte[] bytes = new byte[length];
    try {
        BufferedInputStream reader = new BufferedInputStream(new 
    FileInputStream(file));
    reader.read(bytes, 0, length);
    System.out.println(reader);
    // setFile(bytes);

    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    return bytes;
    }

public String encodeFileToBase64Binary(String fileName)
        throws IOException {
        System.out.println("encodeFileToBase64Binary: "+ fileName);
    File file = new File(fileName);
    byte[] bytes = loadFile(file);
    byte[] encoded = Base64.encodeBase64(bytes);
    String encodedString = new String(encoded);
    System.out.println("ARCHIVO B64: "+encodedString);


    return encodedString;
}

@SuppressWarnings("resource")
public static byte[] loadFile(File file) throws IOException {
    InputStream is = new FileInputStream(file);

    long length = file.length();
    if (length > Integer.MAX_VALUE) {
        // File is too large
    }
    byte[] bytes = new byte[(int)length];

    int offset = 0;
    int numRead = 0;
    while (offset < bytes.length
            && (numRead=is.read(bytes, offset, bytes.length-offset)) >= 0) {
        offset += numRead;
    }

    if (offset < bytes.length) {
        throw new IOException("Could not completely read file "+file.getName());
    }

    is.close();
    return bytes;
}

PDFs may contain binary data and chances are it's getting mangled when you do ToString. It seems to me that you want this:

        FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(sourcePath);

        int numberBytes = inputStream .available();
        byte bytearray[] = new byte[numberBytes];

        inputStream .read(bytearray);