Could you please tell me about the JAVA API's to read a PDF document

 

 

I can,'t but www.google.com can.

 

 

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http://www.lowagie.com/iText/

 

 

You may check this list:

http://www.java-tips.org/content/category/9/117/45/

 

 

Please Try this link:

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2005/10/20/accessing-pdf-with-acrobat-viewer-javabean.html

Regards
Surendra

 

 

thats a good one!!!!

 

 

iText is generally used to create pdf files, not to read them. The only free API I found to read PDF files is pdfbox.

http://www.pdfbox.org/

 

 

???

 

 

hi gimbal2..

i downloaded thePDFBox zip file... ii wana read a PDF File.. i searched for the code today..i didnt get. if u got the solution., . from whr u got the code for read PDF File.. can u pls send the link for that.

thanx in advance
sush

 

 

Give that I have no idea what you actually mean by "read", I'll have to guess.

I think you mean [url=http://snowtide.com/]convert the document into text[/url] then [url=http://www.adobe.com/products/acrviewer/acrvdnld.html?name=Accept#java]display the PD to a user[/url] before [url=http://www.lowagie.com/iText/]cutting the PDF up into pages[/url].

 

 

Depends on what you mean by "read", it can not display the PDF to an end user, can it can watermark, cut out pages and replace images.

 

 

hi..Mlk..

thanx for ur reply..

i mean read (get) the content of PDF File..


sush

 

 

Hey...maybe u can try this ::

private static string parseUsingPDFBox(string filename)
{
PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load(filename);
PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFTextStripper();
return stripper.getText(doc);
}

hope this works...i found it on {http://sourcecode.aivietnam.net/SourceCode/tabid/54/GroupDetailId/40/ContentId/3522/Default.aspx} so u can try this.

 

 

Hello,

I've read this thread carefully and for now I have another question. Is it possible to find and download a free PDF API to display PDF files (like https://pdf-renderer.dev.java.net/) and which supports HTML links and embedded objects? I need such an API to be able at least to support HTML links/anchors in document. I've tested Acrobat PDF bean and it is not so flexible, it shows only PDF on predefined fonts. It did not display my document properly, just blue background. I need something less buggy. I am implementing PDF viewer and 1 of core features is to support HTML links/anchors in documents and to display them properly. So i can click on them and URL will open, or an embedded object will open in another app.

Thanks a lot.