Jacob Collins

  Jacob is the JPedal Product Lead and specialises in PDF creation and manipulation. He also develops Salesforce backend systems and contributes to marketing and support. Outside work, he’s a 1900‑rated chess player, guitarist, and French learner.

 



50 Stories by Jacob Collins

Improvements to Our PDF Inspector

In the last two(1)(2) releases of JPedal, we added some exciting new features to our PDF Inspector tool which can help you debug those...
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How to Sanitize PDF Files: Removing Hidden Risks

PDF is one of the most common formats for sharing documents. PDF files are portable and universally supported, but you may be unaware that...
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How to Duplicate Pages in a PDF in Java (Tutorial)

Sometimes you might want to duplicate pages in a PDF. For example, when filling in multiple copies of a form. Our Java PDF toolkit,...
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How to N-Up Pages in PDF Files in Java (Tutorial)

If you have ever printed slides for a presentation and wanted to save paper when sharing handouts, you might have encountered N-up formatting. N-up...
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How to extract text from a PDF as Markdown

Some PDF files can be “tagged” which means they contain information about the structure of the file. This structure is embedded as metadata within...
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JPedal: Java PDF Parser

Why do we need to parse PDF files? PDF files are unusual in that they do not contain the actual content you see displayed...
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