Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to present documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
After much hard work we are proud to announce that we have added PDF Portfolio support to JPedal. You may not have heard of PDF Portfolios despite them being in the specification since version 1.7. So let me explain what a PDF Portfolio file is. What is a PDF Portfolio? A PDF Portfolio is a…
For the last few weeks at IDR Solutions we have spent our time getting back to our roots of what this blog originally was about ie: PDF files and Java. Hopefully you have found this guide to PDF files interesting to read. If you would like to carry on learning more about PDF and Java,…
Did you know that not only can you convert PDF files into images, (as I explained last time), but you can also extract the actual images used on the page. In this post, I am going to tell you more… How are images stored in PDF files? First, you need to understand how images are…
Last week we looked at text handling and structured text in PDF files. This week I will be looking at images in PDFs. One of the most popular features of our Java PDF library, JPedal, is PDF to image conversion. This allows you to convert PDF files to PNG, JPEG or TIFF. Why Convert PDF…
Introduction In my last article, I mentioned how well PDF integrates text along with common issues with text inside PDFs. In this article, I will be more specific as I will be talking about structured text content. I will mention how marked content enables text extraction, how it follows a tree structure, potential issues it may…
