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. Copy the spreadsheet developed in the Extracting text from a spreadsheet recipe to the root level of the project