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

Anonymous
Parents
  • Hi,

    Sometimes a tif image to pdf conversion fails to produce a pdf. Instead a blank pdf is produced or even more rarely a pdf is produced containing only part of the tif image.

    The smart service does not produce any error output and shows as a success status of True.

    Using v2.5.0 PDF Tools  smart service Convert Image to PDF (pdftools.ConvertImageToPDFWithDpiInput) on Appian 23.4

    The images can be opened in paint (for example) and successfully and completely printed using the Microsoft print to pdf printer.

    Is there anyway to diagnose the issue further (logs, etc)? 

    Regards

Comment
  • Hi,

    Sometimes a tif image to pdf conversion fails to produce a pdf. Instead a blank pdf is produced or even more rarely a pdf is produced containing only part of the tif image.

    The smart service does not produce any error output and shows as a success status of True.

    Using v2.5.0 PDF Tools  smart service Convert Image to PDF (pdftools.ConvertImageToPDFWithDpiInput) on Appian 23.4

    The images can be opened in paint (for example) and successfully and completely printed using the Microsoft print to pdf printer.

    Is there anyway to diagnose the issue further (logs, etc)? 

    Regards

Children
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