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We’re a team of developers and tech enthusiasts solving tricky document problems, so you don’t have to. IDRsolutions was born from our struggles with integrating PDFs and images into applications. We built tools to simplify the process, and now companies worldwide rely on them to streamline their workflows. Here, we share what we’ve learned along the way to help you spend less time wrestling with documents and more time building great applications.

Recent Posts

HTML vs PDF file size: 726 PDFs tested

We converted 726 public PDFs to HTML and compared the sizes. Gzipped, the HTML came out level with the PDF. Here’s where it wins and loses.

Mark Stephens
Last Modified: Sep 29, 2026 10 min read

PDF vs PNG file size: 726 PDFs and 763 images tested

We saved 726 public PDFs as PNG at 72, 150 and 300dpi. The PNGs were a median 5.7 to 40 times bigger. Here’s the data by content type.

Mark Stephens
Last Modified: Sep 29, 2026 10 min read

How to Edit a PDF in Java using JPedal (Tutorial)

Java has no built-in PDF support, so editing a PDF means picking a library. This tutorial covers PDF editing in Java with JPedal’s PdfManipulator, from page operations to redaction…

Jacob Collins
Last Modified: Oct 1, 2026 13 min read

What is PDF/A?

The PDF file format is a very big and complex standard so several more limited subsets have been created for specific purposes, of which...

Mark Stephens
Last Modified: Aug 5, 2026 3 min read

Apache Commons Imaging Alternative for Java: JDeli

If you’ve used Apache Commons Imaging, it was probably to pull EXIF out of a JPEG or edit some XMP. That’s what it’s good...

Amy Pearson
Last Modified: Jul 13, 2026 7 min read