title: Determining text in a pdf file
body: <p>I am analyzing a PDF document to try to determine a date in it (see image).
  I have two java methods at my disposal:</p>
  
  <pre><code> PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load(fil);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>opens the PDF file into a PDDocument object., and</p>
  
  <pre><code> String strip = new PDFTextStripper().getText(doc);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>gets all the text from the pdf file into a string.  Here is what I am trying to read (June 30, 2019)]</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/mTWiS.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/mTWiS.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>Now here it is as text:</p>
  
  <pre><code>This Agreement, which is effective as of\efip2\                               (the "Effective Date")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So would I be correct in assuming that \efip2\ is an image?  There is probably no way to determine a date from that image, right?  Or is it not an image but some kind of include?  Any idea how to get it?</p>