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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How to search for text in a PDF file…

Introduction Can you determine if a PDF is searchable for text without opening it? Well you will need some special software. This might be...
Jacob Collins
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How to read a PDF file

To show how to read a PDF file, I have created a step by step guide to reading very ‘simple’ PDF (it just shows...
Mark Stephens
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What is a PDF Form?

What exactly is a PDF form? A PDF form is an electronic document in Portable Document Format (PDF) which has interactive fields that let...
Mark Stephens
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How to remove unused objects from PDF file (Tutorial)

PDF files sometimes contain objects which are never used. This increases the file size and is wasteful. This tutorial shows you how to reduce...
Jacob Collins
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Glossary of PDF Terms

This article lists and defines commonly used terminology from the PDF world.   AcroForm AcroForm is a PDF form format that was introduced in...
Jacob Collins
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How to remove a page from a PDF file…

The PDF file format is not natively supported by Java. Therefore, to remove a page from a PDF file, you will need an external...
Jacob Collins
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