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.

 



46 Stories by Jacob Collins

PDF Merge in Java (Tutorial)

Introduction Java developers working with PDF documents are always looking to enhance functionality in their document workflows. There is a large selection of Java...
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Testing PDF Merging: Performance and Content Integrity

We’ve been making progress on improving our PDF merge tool JPedal (JPedal is the best Java PDF library for developers), and I was curious...
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How to extract text from PDF files as YAML (Tutorial)

This blog post shows you how to convert a PDF to YAML, by extracting marked content with structure tags. What is structured PDF? Some...
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How to convert PDF files to ePUB

Not all PDFs are created equally. Some go beyond simple visual layouts and include internal tags that describe the document’s structure. These are known...
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How to extract text from a PDF as JSON

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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How to process PDFs for use with AI (Tutorial)

As Artificial Intelligence becomes more popular for processing large bodies of text, it becomes apparent that PDF files pose a challenge. PDF is a...
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