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.

 



68 Stories by Jacob Collins

How to manipulate PDF documents in Java (Tutorial)

Introduction PDF manipulation is a common requirement for Java developers working on document management systems, automation tools, or business applications. Whether you need to...
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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 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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