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

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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What is inside a PDF file?

A PDF document structure consists of several components that determines how text, images and other elements are stored and displayed. It is a binary...
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How to sign PDF files in Java (Tutorial)

PDF files are not natively supported in Java, so to digitally sign them, you will need some special software. This tutorial demonstrates how to...
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