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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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How to read pdf in my android application?

I am making an application which require to open pdf. I also have some pdf in asset folder so i am not able to open it in webview directly. By default android does not support pdf. Is there any API that works on android(except MuPdf) ?? My device…
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How to display a PDF in Objective-C?

How to read and display PDF in Objective-C?
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Android PDF reader from scratch

I know it sounds ambitious but our client requires a PDF Reader of his own with some selected functionalities. Can anyone guide me to some good tutorials for paving the way to start this development? I guess I need to clear some pdf basics and start…
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Google Chrome PDF Viewer API?

Is there any API for interacting with Google Chrome PDF Viewer, pdfium? Like reading page number of current page or setting current page (like Adobe #page=10) or a supporting library like PDFObject for doing these?
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How to check if a PDF is Password Protected or not

I am trying to use iText's PdfReader to check if a given PDF file is password protected or not, but am getting this exception: Exception in thread "Main Thread" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:org/bouncycastle/asn1/ASN1OctetString But when…
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Displaying PDF files with python3

I want to write a python3/PyGTK3 application that displays PDF files and I was not able to find a python package that allows me to do that. There is pypoppler, but it looks outdated (?) and does not seem to support python3 (?) Do you have any…
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Same table is extracted twice from a pdf by Camelot-py

I am trying to extract tables from a multiple page PDF file using camelot-py v0.7.3. So far it has been the best pdf reader tool for me. I just needed to read pdf line by line and detect table manually. I tried many other tools such as tabula,…
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Python - ReportLab and PyPDF edit PDF Issue

I am trying to edit an existing pdf file using PyPDF and ReportLab. When I try to position the red circle and red text, it appears to be hiding behind a white container or something. If I position it anywhere else, it works fine. What is causing…
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Itext 7 - PdfReader is not opened with owner password Error

I am using This example for the latest Itext7 to fill in a document and I am getting this error: iText.Kernel.Crypto.BadPasswordException: PdfReader is not opened with owner password So I looked around the net I found that some people found…
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ReportLab and pdfrw: Importing Scanned PDF

Using the code below, I am trying to import a pdf page into an existing canvas object and save to PDF. This usually works just fine, but I noticed that when I try it with a PDF generated from a scanned document, it results in a blank page. Any…
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PDF does not contain EOF marker (PDF::Reader::MalformedPDFError) with pdf-reader

I am using ‘pdf-reader’ gem to read raw contents of pdf documents so I can post (http-post) them to an API. To confirm the API implementation can create a valid pdf document from the raw content, I wrote a small gist to validate my code to read the…
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Read or open a PDF file using iText in android

i am new to android application development. using iText i had done the PDF creation n write on that created file now i want to read that PDF file. how to open or read a PDF file using iText. Examples will be appreciable.. thenx in…
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File content search c#

I'm trying to implement this feature in my application. Just like in windows, I type into the search box and if the File contents is checked in the settings, than no matter its a text file or pdf/word file, the search returns me the file that…
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How to read PDF files which are in asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Thai, etc.) and store in a string in python

I am using PyPDF2 to read PDF files in python. While it works well for languages in English and European languages (with alphabets in english), the library fails to read Asian languages like Japanese and Chinese. I tried encode('utf-8'),…
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How To Extract Data From PDF In Python Using PDFrw

I am trying to use PDFrw to get data from a certain PDF (Let's say the one at the top right of the page HERE). I am using PDFrw to do this. I have looked through the documentation that they provide (I couldn't find much) and looked at the example…
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