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Apache PDFBox
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So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand
If you don't mind using java, you can use the open source Apache PDFBox library
It's relatively performant and it's a mature and supported codebase that can accomplish most pdf tasks.
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How to crop, split, remove pages from PDFs with Java and PDFBox
Then, open the pdf_utils/pom.xml file and add a dependency to PDFBox, in the dependencies section:
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- Thoughts on Birt Report for pdf reports
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How I archived 100 million PDF documents... (Part 1)
So, when I started to view the documents, a lot of them simply failed to open. I had to look around for a library that could verify PDF documents. I had some experience with PDFBox in the past, so it seemed to be a good go-to solution. It had no way to verify documents by default, but it could open and parse them and that was enough to filter out the incorrect ones. It felt a little bit strange just to read the whole PDF into the memory to verify if it is correct or not, but hey I needed a simple fix for now and it worked really well.
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PDF processing and analysis with open-source tools
PDFBox can do this. It’s not part of the CLI but it wouldn’t be too hard to add:
https://github.com/apache/pdfbox/blob/5b00807463279f1002e245...
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I am looking to automate a process at work...
You'll find libraries in most languages for parsing content out of PDF files, I did this most recently at work in Java using PDFBox.
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Understanding PDF conversion
Something along these lines might be a better bet: https://pdfbox.apache.org/ - no idea if that's the best one, but you should be looking for modern, full-featured PDF manipulation libraries. GhostScript is definitely NOT that - it's an ancient PostScript interpreter that barely, barely supports PDFs.
Apache FOP
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