As far as concern with your question, You can create arraylist of hashmap like below.. replace D:\file_to_read.txt with your file path..
try {
File file = new File("D:\\file_to_read.txt");
FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(file);
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(fileReader);
String line;
HashMap<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
String arry[] = null;
ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> list = new ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>();
while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
if ("".equals(line)) {
list.add(map);
map = new HashMap<String, String>();
System.out.println("blank");
} else {
arry = line.split("=");
map.put(arry[0].trim(), arry[1].trim());
}
}
String picture = list.get(0).get("picture");
String otherLetters = list.get(0).get("otherLetters");
fileReader.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}