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PDFBox 2.0 RC3 — Find and replace text

You can try like this: public static PDDocument replaceText(PDDocument document, String searchString, String replacement) throws IOException { if (Strings.isEmpty(searchString) || Strings.isEmpty(replacement)) { return document; } PDPageTree pages = document.getDocumentCatalog().getPages(); for (PDPage page : pages) { PDFStreamParser parser = new PDFStreamParser(page); parser.parse(); List tokens = parser.getTokens(); for (int j = 0; j < tokens.size(); j++) { … Read more

how to know if a field is on a particular page?

The PDFbox content stream is done per page, but the fields come from the form which comes from the catalog, which comes from the pdf doc itself. So I’m not sure which fields are on which pages The reason for this is that PDFs contain a global object structure defining the form. A form field … Read more

Extract Image from PDF using Java

You can use Pdfbox List pages = document.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages(); Iterator iter = pages.iterator(); while( iter.hasNext() ) { PDPage page = (PDPage)iter.next(); PDResources resources = page.getResources(); Map images = resources.getImages(); if( images != null ) { Iterator imageIter = images.keySet().iterator(); while( imageIter.hasNext() ) { String key = (String)imageIter.next(); PDXObjectImage image = (PDXObjectImage)images.get( key ); String name = … Read more

Reading a particular page from a PDF document using PDFBox

This should work: PDPage firstPage = (PDPage)doc.getAllPages().get( 0 ); as seen in the BookMark section of the tutorial Update 2015, Version 2.0.0 SNAPSHOT Seems this was removed and put back (?). getPage is in the 2.0.0 javadoc. To use it: PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(new File(filename)); PDPage doc = document.getPage(0); The getAllPages method has been renamed … Read more

Converting PDF to multipage tiff (Group 4)

It’s been a while since the question was asked and I finally find time and a wonderful ordered dither matrix which allows me to give some details on how “icafe” can be used to get similar or better results than calling external ghostscript executable. Some new features were added to “icafe” recently such as better … Read more

PDFBox: Problem with converting pdf page into image

Convert PDF file 04-Request-Headers.pdf to image using pdfbox. Download this file and paste it in Documents folder. Example: package com.pdf.pdfbox.test; import java.awt.HeadlessException; import java.awt.Toolkit; import java.awt.image.BufferedImage; import java.io.File; import java.util.List; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage; import org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFImageWriter; public class ConvertPDFPageToImageWithoutText { public static void main(String[] args) { try { String oldPath = “C:/Documents/04-Request-Headers.pdf”; File oldFile = … Read more

convert pdf to svg

Inkscape can also be used to convert PDF to SVG. It’s actually remarkably good at this, and although the code that it generates is a bit bloated, at the very least, it doesn’t seem to have the particular issue that you are encountering in your program. I think it would be challenging to integrate it … Read more

How to add PDFBox to an Android project or suggest alternative

PDFBox uses java awt and swing, even for non UI tasks, I’ve tried to remove references but there are a lot of files, and I was removing too much stuff I’ve just tested PDFjet http://pdfjet.com/os/edition.html it’s bsd licensed (plus commercial version with more features), with this sample code (ripped from Example_03.java) I was able to … Read more

How to determine artificial bold style ,artificial italic style and artificial outline style of a text using PDFBOX

The general procedure and a PDFBox issue In theory one should start this by deriving a class from PDFTextStripper and overriding its method: /** * Write a Java string to the output stream. The default implementation will ignore the <code>textPositions</code> * and just calls {@link #writeString(String)}. * * @param text The text to write to … Read more

pdfBox – Signature validity checkmark not visible in Acrobat reader

In-document visualisations of the signature validity have been deprecated nearly a decade ago. Adobe Reader supports them for backward compatibility reasons only but they have never been part of the iso pdf specification. The OP in a comment asked for documentation on this; this answer focuses on that. Deprecation in respect to Adobe Acrobat In … Read more