Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to present documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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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...
Leon Atherton
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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...
Jacob Collins
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PDFBox alternative

Working with PDF documents in Java, developers often encounter the choice between open-source libraries like Apache PDFBox and commercial solutions like JPedal. While PDFBox...
Jacob Collins
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