Questions tagged [pdf-reader]

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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Reading pdf in rails error "Input must be an IO-like object or a filename error on"

I'm trying to read a pdf file in rails using pdf-reader gem of rails. Here is my code <% reader = PDF::Reader.new('/uploads/pdf/pdf_1.pdf') puts reader.pdf_version puts reader.info puts reader.metadata puts reader.page_count %> There problem is in…
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Unknown glyph width error with Ruby pdf-reader

I have a script that uses pdf-reader among other gems to parse and split up a large pdf file into multiple pdfs. I have been setting it up to run on a new machine, and am now getting this error when I try to run tests: Failure/Error:…
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PDF Viewer on Metro Style App without launching separate application

I have found Foxit Embedded PDF SDK for pdf reading without lauching. It is great. It works properly for Metro Style App in windows 8. They also supply demo(sample code). But they only give 30days trial version only. I want to know that there is…
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How to Read Local Pdf,XlS,DOC file in android

I am trying to create a project in which I need my application to read locally store pdf, doc, xls files. I don't have any idea on how to do it. I want to show all that locally stored files in my webview. Is there any library to render this files…
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Render/Dispaly and Play youtube video embedded in pdf, Android

I have an PDF that contains hyperlinks and YouTube video embedded in it. Target : Need to open PDF and all hyperlinks and videos should be working. Findings : I have tried many of projects and third-party applications. Most of them use MuPDF, and…
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pdf-reader gem on Mongoid

I'm trying to use the pdf-reader gem (https://github.com/yob/pdf-reader) on my app (RoR with Mongoid). Unfortunately it doesn't work. I've put the gem in the Gemfile (and have done 'bundle install'). Here's my feedback: uninitialized constant…
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iPhone: Is there any way of how to PDF pages Scroll In UIScrollview like paging in Leaves Project

I have a Leaves view (Tom Brow's leaves project) to simulate curling effect for PDF pages. now i want to implement in Leaves project page only scrolling like paging i was refund vfr-Reader project but it is hard coding and i can not understood how…
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PDF Reader in .NET

I want to read PDF files from my .net application. Are there any free libraries available to do this?
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Converting PDF Table from URL into a Pandas Dataframe?

Having issues converting PDF data into a dataframe depending on how the PDF is uploaded to the website. Hi all, Does anyone have any ideas on how to read an uploaded PDF's data into a pandas dataframe? I am having issues doing it with certain…
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ironpdf RuntimeError: Failed to create a .NET runtime

i am following a pdf reader tutorial with ironpdf from this link but i got this error: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- RuntimeError Traceback (most recent call last) File…
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Order PDF content in content panel based on tagging order ( I want to alter content stream text order)?

As we know in pdf the content order is random. Can place text anywhere within the page. This leads to the pdf content order is random not like human reading order. Because of this when pdf is reading by using some (Orbit Note, Read & Write) screen…
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How can I generate PDFs with the language “Khmer”?

For an international website with bilingual picture books, we would like to generate PDFs also translated into Khmer. Currently we are using “tcpdf” to generate the PDFs, and the fonts Noto Khmer and Noto Sans. In the generated PDF, some characters…
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How to find xy position of text in pdf or image

I want to have my code find the xy position of text in a pdf or image, so that I can crop the image out, this is so that I can include any diagrams that the question includes in the question (which consists of an image that text is put on top of), I…
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Using ITextSharp TextRenderInfo.GetTextRenderMode ignoring hidden text in pdf

I have a series of PDF files I need to search for keywords, but many of them contain a huge amount of hidden text. What I mean is when you try to CTRL+F to see how many key words are named "CJP" there are about 35 results, but in reality there are…
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How to highlight, searched word in PDF reader?

In PDF reading application is being developed and using QuartzCore(VFR) framework PDF reading is being achieved. Now what is needed to be implement is to highlight the text, which is being searched by the user. How to achieve it? NOTE: I have went…
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