https://blog.idrsolutions.com/tag/txt/ PDF tips and JPedal highlights en-US hourly 1 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/how-to-redact-pdf-text-with-the-jpedal-viewer/ Jacob Collins Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:05:09 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=38708 TL;DR The JPedal PDF Viewer can be used to redact text in PDF documents. Select ‘Redact’ from the tools menu and draw a rectangle... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/extract-text-from-a-pdf-as-json/ Jacob Collins Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:07:51 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=38688 Some 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/improvements-to-our-pdf-inspector/ Jacob Collins Tue, 23 Sep 2025 10:06:52 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=37351 In the last two(1)(2) releases of JPedal, we added some exciting new features to our PDF Inspector tool which can help you debug those... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/how-to-extract-text-from-a-pdf-as-markdown/ Jacob Collins Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:29:02 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=37299 Some 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/how-to-translate-pdf-files-in-java-tutorial/ Jacob Collins Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:03:10 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=36727 Today I will demonstrate a worked example to show how you can create a PDF translator using our PDF toolkit JPedal and Translator. This... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/how-to-process-pdfs-for-use-with-ai/ Jacob Collins Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:22:37 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=35932 As Artificial Intelligence becomes more popular for processing large bodies of text, it becomes apparent that PDF files pose a challenge. PDF is a... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/search-pdf-for-text-without-opening/ Jacob Collins Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:57:15 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=35280 Introduction Can you determine if a PDF is searchable for text without opening it? Well you will need some special software. This might be... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/apache-tika-support-in-jpedal/ Jacob Collins Tue, 24 Jan 2023 14:44:42 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=31637 JPedal now contains an Apache Tika Parser which can parse and extract structured and unstructured text from PDF files. How to use an Apache... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/understanding-the-pdf-file-format/ Leon Atherton Thu, 17 Mar 2022 09:49:41 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=6213 We have been working with PDF files since 1999 and built our own software to parse, render, and convert them. In that time we... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/tutorial-copy-text-javafx-swing/ Nathan Howard Thu, 26 Jun 2014 07:00:10 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=13201 At IDRSolutions we have a PDF Viewer that has the ability to highlight and copy text, because we are developing a JavaFX implementation of our PDF Viewer we required...