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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

JPedal now supports the experimental JXLDecode filter

In the latest release of our PDF library JPedal, we added experimental support for JPEG XL images in PDF files, which use the new JXLDecode filter…

Jacob Collins
Last Modified: Nov 12, 2026 4 min read

JPedal vs Apache PDFBox: PDF to image speed and memory benchmark

We rendered 2,075 public PDFs to images with JPedal and PDFBox. On the 1,914 where both drew the same pages, JPedal took 21% less time.

Mark Stephens
Last Modified: Nov 11, 2026 14 min read

What is HEIF? HEIF vs HEIC

HEIF is a container format for images. HEIC is a HEIF file whose pixels were coded with HEVC, which is what your iPhone produces. The distinction explains most of the trouble people have with these files…

Amy Pearson
Last Modified: Oct 22, 2026 7 min read

PDF/A Compliance in Java: JPedal Now Converts PDF to PDF/A-3b

The September release of JPedal (2026.09) adds PDF to PDF/A-3b conversion, and JPedal can also validate PDF files against the Arlington PDF Model…

Jacob Collins
Last Modified: Oct 13, 2026 3 min read

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