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An application or API that understands and parses PDF syntax allowing the manipulation or inspection of the objects contained in the PDF.

An application or API that understands and parses PDF syntax allowing the manipulation or inspection of the objects contained in the PDF.

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Open source library for viewing or reading document within an Android app?

I'm looking for an open-source library for android (Jar), in which I can open documents or pdf files. I have searched the net and haven't found anything suitable or stable. My main goal is to show some encrypted files, which my application will…
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How to copy/read a pdf file in ruby/rails 3

I need to both read in and write pdf files and in some cases merge a pdf I have with the one I need to read in. I attempted to do this with the pdf-reader gem and the prawn gem. The pdf-reader gem doesn't seem to allow straight copying of a file,…
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How to implement a search function in my Android pdf reader app?

I am willing to add search functionality to my pdf reader.I dont know how do i achieve this functionality.Any help would be appreciated. Note:I am using third party library to read the pdf file. Here is the library…
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Handling Async Functions and Routing in Formidable / Extracting text in PDFReader

I'm creating an application where users upload a pdf and extracts the text into JSON format. I am able to access the text, but I can't hold the response until the PDF extraction is complete. I'm unfamiliar with Formidable and I may be missing…
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How to read different language fonts in pdf using nodejs

I am using the nodejs as a server in my application. I have used the pdfreader and pdfjson npm modules to read a pdf file. my code is shown below: let fs = require('fs'), PDFParser = require("pdf2json"); let pdfParser = new…
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How to show html in file in react-pdf component?

import sample from './response.pdf' React-pdf Component. I am using manual PDF in the document component. So its working…
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Unable to install textract

Using the command pip install textractI'm unable to install textract on my Ubuntu 16.04, Python 2. I get the following error: Collecting textract Requirement already satisfied: python-pptx==0.6.5 in ./anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from…
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Get PDF content

I want to read the some content pdf files. I just started before getting into the stuff I just want to know what the right approach to do so. ItextSharp reader may be helpful in that case, so I converted the pdf into text using: public static string…
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C# iTextSharp PDFReader Reads From Beginning of PDF Always

I am using iTextSharp PDFReader to read a pdf file that has 18 pages but every time I increment the page number, it starts from the beginning of the pdf instead of reading just that particular page. If I set "x" to the pdfReader.NumberOfPages…
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iText - read PDFs created with an unknown random owner password

I'm getting the following exception when excecuting this code: public byte[] watermarking(byte[] orig) throws IOException { PdfReader pdfReader = new PdfReader(orig); ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); …
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Getting ava.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.pdfbox.io.RandomAccessRead console error after pdfbox request

I'm working in a servlet file for a web project and this is my code : I have the v.2.0.0 of pdfbox library and my code works in a simple java application pdfmanager.java : public class pdfManager { private PDFParser parser; private…
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How to locate position in pdf generated with jasperreport to place a signature?

I generate a PDF file with JAVA and jasper. Such jasper file is designed with iReport. Once the pdf file is created, I would like to place a signature with PdfStamper in a concrete position in the pdf. Possible solutions that I have found: Use…
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Rotating PDF using Javascript

I am looking for a solution where i can use java-script to rotate an existing PDF. I tried many things but could not find anything. i am not sure if PDF.JS or jsPDF.js can help me, i tried to figure out but was not very successful. But doing the…
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PDF reader ruby gem landscape Page

I am trying to convert pdf to plain text using Pdf-reader ruby gem (https://github.com/yob/pdf-reader/) It is working fine with pages whose orientation is portrait but its not working for me with pages whose orientation is landscape When i am trying…
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iOS QLPreviewController Left to Right page swipe

The default implementation of PDF viewing using QLPreviewController is swipe pages top through bottom. Is there anyway I can make it work from left to right swipe? QLPreviewController *previewVC = [QLPreviewController…
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