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 of work, he’s a 1900‑rated chess player, guitarist, and French learner.

 



65 Stories by Jacob Collins

How to Duplicate Pages in a PDF in Java (Tutorial)

The Java PDF toolkit, JPedal makes duplicating pages in PDF documents an easy task. You might want to duplicate pages when filling in multiple...
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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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How to add annotations to a PDF file

What is PDF Annotation? Annotating PDF files is an essential skill for collaboration, review, and seamless communication in both professional and educational workflows. PDF...
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How to translate PDF files in Java (Tutorial)

Today I will demonstrate a worked example to show how you can create a PDF translator using our PDF toolkit JPedal and Translator. This...
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