https://blog.idrsolutions.com/tag/jpedal/PDF tips and JPedal highlightsen-US hourly 1https://blog.idrsolutions.com/twelvemonkeys-alternative-for-java-image-processing/Amy PearsonFri, 03 Jul 2026 13:35:18 +0000https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=39751Most Java developers find TwelveMonkeys the same way: ImageIO won’t read some format, a quick search turns it up, a few JARs go on...https://blog.idrsolutions.com/how-to-read-pdf-files-in-java-step-by-step-guide/Jacob CollinsWed, 13 May 2026 09:45:21 +0000https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=39094TL;DR Java has no native PDF support, so you need a library. Apache PDFBox is free and adequate for basic extraction, and iText adds...https://blog.idrsolutions.com/working-with-pdf-files-in-java/Jacob CollinsThu, 23 Apr 2026 11:29:07 +0000https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=38792Portable Document Format (PDF) files are the standard for sharing and preserving documents across the internet and other platforms, but working with them programmatically...https://blog.idrsolutions.com/how-to-remove-text-from-a-pdf-in-java-using-jpedal-tutorial/Jacob CollinsThu, 09 Apr 2026 09:31:57 +0000https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=38703TL;DR True PDF redaction in Java requires two things: hiding the text visually and removing it from the content stream. This tutorial shows how...https://blog.idrsolutions.com/remove-unused-objects-from-pdf-file-tutorial/Jacob CollinsMon, 23 Mar 2026 18:12:00 +0000https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=38690PDF files sometimes contain objects which are never used. This increases the file size and is wasteful. This tutorial shows you how to reduce...https://blog.idrsolutions.com/extract-text-from-a-pdf-as-json/Jacob CollinsMon, 23 Mar 2026 18:07:51 +0000https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=38688Some PDF files can be “tagged” which means they contain information about the structure of the file. This structure is embedded as metadata within...https://blog.idrsolutions.com/convert-pdf-files-to-epub/Jacob CollinsMon, 23 Mar 2026 10:38:04 +0000https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=38669Not all PDFs are created equally. Some go beyond simple visual layouts and include internal tags that describe the document’s structure. These are known...https://blog.idrsolutions.com/java-pdf-to-avif-conversion-tutorial/Jacob CollinsWed, 11 Mar 2026 10:49:11 +0000https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=38608Why convert PDF files to AVIF images? A PDF is a vector image (so it is rendered when you display it at whatever size...https://blog.idrsolutions.com/pdf-processing-with-spring-boot-tutorial/Jacob CollinsFri, 07 Nov 2025 11:55:02 +0000https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=37619What is Spring Boot? Spring Boot is a framework for efficiently building production level Java apps. It builds on top of the Spring framework...https://blog.idrsolutions.com/how-to-extract-text-from-a-pdf-as-markdown/Jacob CollinsThu, 18 Sep 2025 08:29:02 +0000https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=37299Some PDF files can be “tagged” which means they contain information about the structure of the file. This structure is embedded as metadata within...