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  • Author: Appian Corporation
  • Type: Plug-in (Function & Smart Service)
  • Support: This plug-in or utility is not supported by the author. The content is free to use with a licensed product, but it is made available as-is and Community supported.
  • Industry: All Industries
  • Compatible Version(s): 23.2
  • First Released:
  • Last Updated:
  • Cost: Free
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PDF Tools

Overview

Contains multiple Smart Services and Functions for interacting with PDF Documents.

Key Features & Functionality

Smart Services:

  • Merge PDF - Merges multiple PDF documents into a single document.
  • Extract PDF Pages - Extracts a range of pages from an existing PDF into a new PDF.
  • Fill PDF - Populates the fields of a PDF Form and optionally flattens it disallow further changes.
  • Create PDF Content - Allows text to be added to a PDF with control over the style, position, and angle. An existing PDF can be updated or a new one created from scratch.
  • Convert PDF to Image - Creates an array of images or a multi-page tiff from a PDF.
  • Compress PDF - Compresses the images in the PDF to make it smaller.
  • Un-protect and Copy PDF - Using the document password, create an un-protected copy of a protected PDF.
  • Convert Image to PDF - Creates a PDF starting from one or many images. It also supports multi-page tiff images.
  • Encrypt PDF - Encrypts an existing PDF with a password.

Functions:

  • Get PDF Metadata - Retrieves metadata on the PDF: page count, title, author, security, encryption, etc.
  • Get PDF Text - Retrieves the text content from a PDF.
  • Get PDF Form Fields - Retrieves the populated form field values of an unflattened PDF.
  • Get PDF Signature Fields - Retrieves the populated signature field values of an unflattened PDF.
  • Get PDF Bookmarks - Retrieves the list of bookmarks and associated page number in the PDF

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  • Hi,

    We had been using the Create PDF and it is on our cloud Production Environment as well. Ever since the plugin was updated to the latest version (2.2.10), the node throws an error and on the logs, we see the following error.

    2021-02-22 04:24:29,665 [ThreadPoolTaskExecutor-24675] ERROR com.appiancorp.process.workpoller.WorkItemListener - The following exception occurred while attempting to complete work item [(WorkId: 687, WorkType: {Process Id:268475360,Point Id:268438308} Activity Metadata:{Id:268438308,ACPs:{ActivityClassParameter[name=CreateNewDocument,it=26,v=1],ActivityClassParameter[name=NewDocumentName,it=3,v=PDF Image_2021023419_18],ActivityClassParameter[name=NewDocumentDesc,it=3,v=],
    ActivityClassParameter[name=SaveInFolder,it=12,v=1659],ActivityClassParameter[name=ExistingDocument,it=13,v=<null>],ActivityClassParameter[name=Document,it=13,v=<null>],ActivityClassParameter[name=PauseOnError,it=26,v=0],ActivityClassParameter[name=Contents,it=197,v={TypedValue[it=4080,v={<null>,<null>,<null>,<null>,{{<null>,{TypedValue[it=4074,v={<null>, Trailer Tempreture Proof }]}},{<null>,{TypedValue[it=4074,v={<null>, Trailer Tempreture Set Point: 32,32,72}]}},{<null>,{TypedValue[it=4074,v={<null>, Trailer Box Tempreture: 32,32,22}]}},{<null>,
    {TypedValue[it=4076,v={39662,<null>,0.2}]}}}}]}]},ARVs:{ActivityReturnVariable[name=ErrorOccurred,it=26,v=<null>],ActivityReturnVariable[name=ErrorText,it=3,v=],ActivityReturnVariable[name=NewDocumentCreated,it=13,v=<null>]}}, Response: null, ServerName: execution01)] - Exception: 
javax.resource.spi.work.WorkCompletedException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/beanutils/BeanUtils

    Please help us to understand the error and any solutions to this will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

  • in reply to Athira Vinodkumar

    Hi,

    We resolved this by adding the required library into the plugin jar and since our environment was on the cloud, we raised an Appian Support ticket to deploy the updated jar to our environments.

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