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.

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

aleksandrss0001 5 months ago

Hi, I am getting the following error while trying to convert pdf to mp_tiff image:

UnattendedJavaActivityRequest] ERROR com.appiancorp.ps.pdftools.ConvertPDFToImage - Error converting PDF to image

com.appiancorp.suiteapi.common.exceptions.AppianStorageException: In order to access this method, this Document needs to be retrieved via ContentService.download()

at com.appiancorp.content.DocumentHelper.getOutputStream(DocumentHelper.java:158)

Anyone else came across this issue?

Thanks, Aleksandrs
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Mike Schmitt 6 months ago in reply to Mike Schmitt

almost 2 years later and no movement (or replies) on this one, sadly, and it's becoming an issue again.
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Mark Y 6 months ago

Is there a limit to the number of pages that can be put into a PDF when using Merge PDF?
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Mike Schmitt 6 months ago

Is there any reason why documents generated via Fill PDF would come out with a back-end status of "Active Pending Approval" instead of "Active Published"? This is causing me unexpected issues in a process, and I'm hesitant to just use a quick work-around at risk of causing down-stream issues that I don't anticipate from leaving a document in that state.
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ignacioa0620 6 months ago in reply to anthonyc3378

Hi anthonyc3378 have you been able to find a solution or workaround to that error? I'm not very familiar to CMYK images, we mostly are converting a DOCX file into PDF, so maybe replacing the images on the DOCX template to another encoding or something similar could work?
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pauls0008 7 months ago in reply to Ignacio Arriagada

Hi,

The issue seemed to be some sort of race condition where processing a single image worked fine but trying to process multiple images at the same time caused the issue.

Reverting to the previous version was not possible, so with the aid of Appian support the plugin was removed, restart the application server and then reinstalled the plugin.

The same process had to be performed to upgrade each of our environments.

This cured the issue.

Please note that the same sort of issue was logged here (by me) about two years ago.

Hope this helps
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Ignacio Arriagada 7 months ago in reply to pauls0008

Hi pauls0008 we are having the same issue. Have you found any other detail or workaround? Was there any update on this?
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alejandror2848 7 months ago

When I try to merge PDF I get the following error:
"java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: SHA-2 MessageDigest not available".
Could someone tell me why this error may occur?

Appian AppMarket 7 months ago
v2.6.0 Release Notes
- Adding function to find page where text is present
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Appian AppMarket 7 months ago
v2.6.0 Release Notes
- Adding function to find page where text is present
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