Invented by Adobe Systems over 20 years ago, the Portable Document Format (PDF) is now an open standard for electronic document exchange maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). When you convert documents, forms, graphics, and web pages to PDF, they look just like they would if printed.

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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...
Jacob Collins
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How to extract text from PDF files as YAML…

This blog post shows you how to convert a PDF to YAML, by extracting marked content with structure tags. What is structured PDF? Some...
Jacob Collins
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Choosing the Best Document Viewer for Your Web App

Choosing the right document viewer for display is a crucial step in your journey to developing a web application. The document viewer should be...
Leon Atherton
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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...
Jacob Collins
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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...
Jacob Collins
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PDF.js Alternative for PDF Documents

Display Documents on Web Apps PDF.js is maintained by Mozilla for Firefox, but it works reasonably well with other browsers. It allows you to...
Leon Atherton
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