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

naomi0001 over 5 years ago in reply to Surendra Bhandari

was this resolved?
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jansis855 over 5 years ago

Hello,Can you please let me know the max memory size of the pdf's that can be used to merge to convert into one using the PDF Tools plugin.
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marcoc918 over 5 years ago

Hello, we are starting a new project in an Appian Cloud environment, probably 19.3, using the getpdffields() function, is this plugin supported? What kind of libraries this plugin use? Can we assume that in further release this plugin will be supported?
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Richard - SmartRules over 5 years ago

Hello,
we will soon update to 19.2.
is this Version still supported?
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harshav420 over 5 years ago

Hi Is there a way where we can create a PDF from a Dynamic Template rather than a Static Template?
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thomas kefauver over 5 years ago

Hello again,

I fixed it! This has been stumping my team for weeks but it was as simple to use as you described. Our problem was we were still using version 1.5 of the plugin
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thomas kefauver over 5 years ago

Hello,

I am trying to follow the information mentioned in the v2.2.1 Update to add images to a PDF using the Fill PDF smart service but have had no success getting the image to map to the pdf and it does not give an error. I have tried both .PNG and .JPG images with no success.

In Acrobat when creating the form template what field type and settings need to be in place to map the image correctly? In Acrobat for windows there is no Image form field type and on mac the image field appears to be simply an altered button type but following the instructions does not add the image to the form!

I know my smart node is correct because passing a text pdffield as well will populate correctly but passing the image field and document id has no effect. Please help clarify what I could be missing.

Thank you
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Rahul Patil over 5 years ago

Mathieu Drouin , can you check the application logs and see if there are more details? Also, is the pauseonerror flag set to true or false? If its true can you change it to false and then see if you get more error details either in process or in logs? Like Sylvain Furt asked in earlier comments please share all the details either with me (rahul.patil@appian.com) or with Sylvain, so we can try to reproduce this issue in-house.

I am assuming you are already using the latest version of the plug-in, if not please update the latest and give it a try.
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Mathieu Drouin over 5 years ago

I also have the same issue in 18.4 when using the Convert PDF to Image smart service.

bundleName for SmartServiceException, builder.smartServiceClass=class com.appiancorp.ps.pdftools.AbstractPDFDocumentGeneration
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Surendra Bhandari over 5 years ago

Hello Sylvain,

We are facing the same issue in our 18.2 :

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

Any help would be appreciated.
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