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  • Author: Appian Corporation
  • Type: Plug-in (Function & Smart Service)
  • Support: This is an Appian supported plug-in. To the extent that this plug-in does not conform to its documentation, please submit a ticket to Appian Technical Support. Appian does not support customer-created customizations or outdated versions of the plug-in.
  • Industry: All Industries
  • Compatible Version(s): 26.4
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  • Cost: Free - Appian Supported
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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,
  • Split PDF Pages In Half - Supports spitting individual pdf pages horizontally or vertically with an overlap
  • Rotate PDF - rotate entire pdf by 90, 180, or 270 degrees
  • Convert Txt to PDF - Convert a text to pdf with a choice of font type and size
  • Split PDF Into Chunks - Splits a PDF document into multiple smaller PDFs with a specified number of pages per chunk

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

  • Find Pages with Text - Retrieves an array of page numbers that contain a specified search string within the PDF

Anonymous

  • Hi we have upgraded form an old version 2.2.11 to 2.4.1 and now the plugin "PDF from Single DOCX (with fonts)" is failing, 

    we have tried to update the calls using "PDF from DOCX" but it works only with externally loaded DOCX generated from template. It is not not with ones created from a DOCX directly in appian. 

    can someone help if it has already faced and addressed the issue?

  • I'm trying to run a user-supplied PDF through "Compress PDF".  It's refusing and giving me the following error message:

    Cannot read JPEG2000 image: Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) Image I/O Tools are not installed

    This is happening in the current version of the plug-in and for a valid PDF as far as I can tell (it opens fine in Adobe Reader as well as the Appian document preview field, etc).

    Any chance an update could be created to account for this issue?

  • in reply to Shikha

    sorry i never saw this reply before (community doesn't bother send notifications of general replies in these threads, for whatever reason) - the "pdf fields" parameter can just be passed a list of dictionary data where each dictionary has parameters named "name" and "value", where "name" will match the PDF fillable field's internal "name" parameter, and "value" is generally any text value. 

    I agree the documentation for this plug-in is a little vague as to how that works, though you can get a good idea by looking at the definition for the "PdfField" data type on page 13 of the documentation PDF.

  • Getting error as "bundleName for SmartServiceException, builder.smartServiceClass=class com.appiancorp.ps.pdftools.AbstractPDFDocumentGeneration" when converting a PDF to image.  How to fix this?

  • Getting the error below on the mergePDF node:

    Appian version 21.4.1075....

    Any help will be much appreciated.

    Thanks

    bundleName for SmartServiceException, builder.smartServiceClass=class com.appiancorp.ps.pdftools.AbstractPDFDocumentGeneration

  • I'm attempting to get the number of pages from a PDF using getPDFMetaData, but it's erroring saying Error expected floating point number actual='-17.-32768'. 

  • Hi ,

    we are using fill pdf smart service so we can populate data but is seems that we are doing something wrong.

    Here is the exemple of it:

    = {
      Barcode: "123",
      BarCodeNumber: "456",
      CustomerFLName: "BDVBDVBCB",
      CustomerAddress: "BCMNDBSMBBV",
      Datum: "DDFBVBDFVNBMDFBV",
      ArchNum: "BFVKJBDBVMBVM",
      CMPL_Code: "  VM VMNMC M M",
      pozdrav: "BMCNBMBNCB NB",
      pricina: "VBMDBFVMNVBN",
      tabela_potpisi: " DC NMMN B",
      Aktivirajte: "VBMDBVMBM BCN"
    }

    The data field are not fulfill it stay as it is define.

    The flatten filed is set to true().

    And getPdfFields() is responding correctly:

    [name=Barcode, value=], [name=BarCodeNumber, value=], [name=CustomerFLName, value=], [name=CustomerAddress, value=], [name=Datum, value=], [name=ArchNum, value=], [name=CMPL_Code, value=], [name=pozdrav, value=], [name=pricina, value=], [name=tabela_potpisi, value=], [name=Aktivirajte, value=]

    So we  assume that the template is OK.

    Any help is much appreciated.

    BR,Natasa

  • Hi,

    Upgraded plugin to 2.4.1

    Unable to convert Tiff image to PDF. Similar error in comments below from 3 months ago.

    Also icons disappeared from process monitoring, process activity tab.

    Appian Support removed plugin and restarted server.

    Icons reappeared.

    Appian support reinstalled plugin and icons still available.

    And now the pdf to tiff conversion works.

    Any ideas on resolving this going forward?

    Regards

  • in reply to bobt

    Hi,   Did a bit more digging into my issue.     I feel what might be occurring is in my use case the master PDF, pages 1&2, have the same PDF fields defined as those in the pages Im trying to merge with.     Ideally I would like to behavior of merge to merge the PDF fields as well as opposed to renaming them.    

    Not sure if this is feasible or not.   Before digging into the source can anyone provide insights to my challenge?   Is what Im desiring even achievable with the Java libraries used? 

    Regards,

    Bob

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