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Generic file parser design in Java using the Strategy pattern

I am working on a product in which the responsibility of one of the modules is to parse XML files and dump the required content in a database. Even though the present requirement is only to parse XML ...
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Programming Language Parser (in Java) - What would be a better design alternative for a special case?

Background I'm currently designing my own programming language as a research project. I have most of the grammar done and written down as context-free grammar, and it should be working as is. - Now ...
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Extracting text from various file formats

I want to extract text from various files. I used Apache POI for parsing Microsoft documents. It's working and now I want to parse PDFs and extract text from them. Is there a Java API that I could ...