Hi, I have a situation where I need to print data in matrix format. I have main report and subreport. From the main report I am passing a list (objects) to the subreport. Inside the subreport I have to print object data in tabular/matrix format as below: | Name1 | Name2 | Name3 | | Address1 | Address2 | Address3 | | Phon...
What is the best way to programmatically check if a PDF file is a totally scanned one? I do have iText and PDFBox at my disposal. I can check if a pdf file contains text or not, and according to the result to decide if this file is OCRed, but this solution is not 100% accurate. I'd like to know whether there is another way to cope with ...
I'm trying to extract text from PDF files using an iFilter. The Adobe PDF iFilter that is distributed with Adobe Reader is awful, returning HRESULT E_FAIL messages for many PDF documents. The FoxIt PDF IFilter works beautifully on virtually all of the PDFs I've been using for testing. The problem is that every time the Adobe Updater...
We currently have a number of desktop applications (PowerBuilder, Winforms, WPF) that make use of a single CHM for context sensitive help. We'd like to move away from CHM as it's difficult to maintain but we've not found a suitable alternative. Ideally we'd like our developers to keep the help files up to date (perhaps in a wiki) as they...
My domain model has the ability to output the byte array of a pdf file. Is there a way to go directly from the byte array to the outputResource without having to create an intermediate bean to store the array into a Resource? This would be a lot easier as I dont want to put Faces code in the domain objects... ...
I would like to create a service that would take 2 fields (name & company name) from an HTML form and place it in a PDF document (a completion certificate that the user can print/save etc.) How would you recommend doing this? ...
I see many questions and answers about using C# to generate PDF files. I have a related, but different task. I have a large number of PDF files already created, and I would like to validate certain parts of the content with Regular Expressions (RegExs). I want to open the PDFs in C#, and be able to read out the text in something approa...
Is it possible to open a PDF on clicking a link in a web page, at a certain page with a certain word highlighted. E.g. my app scans keywords in pdf docs and prints a summary of their appearances. It would be nice if the user could click a link and have the PDF open at the correct page with all instances of that word being highlighted on ...
currently i have been using the following code and i am using some dll files from pdfbox FileInfo file = new FileInfo("c://aa.pdf"); PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load(file.FullName); PDFTextStripper pdfStripper = new PDFTextStripper(); string text = pdfStripper.getText (doc); richTextBox1.Text = ...
Hi, We have pre-populated PDF Form created in Adobe Acrobat Pro ver 9.2 that we intend to fill on the fly by using iText and Java. The problem I have is: Ideally I am looking for "A FIELD" in PDF Form that can be created once when creating the pdf form. Then subsequent fields can be created multiple times one after another on the fl...
I really try to find on google how can we convert .doc and .txt file into pdf file but not getting required answer or code. I want any command line software of converter code which will provide code that convert above to format file into pdf file. if any user upload upload .txt and .doc file then it will be convert into .pdf file in m...
I'm using TCPDF in CakePHP and trying to make some background (grey) for few cells. Well here the idea: so the grey thing would somehow have to be define outside of the cells containg text. Any ideas? Paul ...
Hi, I am using php code to query to a database and the results will be used to generate a report. If I want the report to be generated in a pdf format how should I do it ? ...
Hi, would anyone suggest a free solution to programmatically convert Office documents (mostly .doc) to PDF in the form of a .NET library or a command-line application i can call from my program? Thanks PS: I know I can use SaveAs PDF in newer versions of Office, but some of the clients where the program will run still have older versio...
Will have 50-100 single PDF's that we'll be generating with a php script. PDF's are generally grouped into groups of 10-20. Each group needs to have it's own Table of Contents or Index, and then there also needs to be a Master Table of Contents or Index at the beginning. Or if that is too difficult we could get away with a single Table...
When I open a PDF document in Acrobat Pro, how can I obtain the full name of the file including its absolute location (full directory listing)? For example, if I open up myfile.pdf, I want to know that its full name is S:\Company Data\Reports\Project1\myfile.pdf . The Document Properties lists both the short file name (myfile.pdf) a...
I am loading an html page into a WebBrowser object in a VB.NET Windows Forms application. The user may make changes to textboxes, dropdowns, etc. on the HTML page displayed in the browser. I want the ability to save the current context to a .pdf file on the local HD. I am able to print using WebBrowser.Print(), which shows the current...
I have a folder with 100s of PDF versions of PPT presentations. I also have a one page PDF file that I want to add to the beginning of each PDF file. Is there a way I can do this with PHP? Could I maybe use the Zend Framework? ...
Hi all, I just uploaded two .pdf files on my server. They are both in the same folder. The first one can be normally accessed but for the second one I get an HTTP Error 401.3 "You are not authorized to view this page" This looks weird to me. Do you have any idea why is this happening? ...
Hi All, I have a specific requirement of extracting text and images from a specific area in a pdf file.The area might be a selected or highlighted or from a given set of coordinates. When i went through, all the approaches are to extract images and text entirely from the PDF on not in a specified location. I tried with iTextSharp,Sync...