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

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

Michael Chirlin 1 month ago in reply to Mike Schmitt

I've seen this error before and it was solved by restarting the site. I think it's due to the BundleActivator not running properly.
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harikanthk0004 1 month ago

Hi Team,

Unable to update the plug-n to 2.8.2 version we are in Appian 25.1 version
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harikanthk0004 1 month ago

Hi Team - is there way to set the property to READ-ONLY for the generated PDFs. Currently it doesn't work.
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Appian AppMarket 1 month ago
v2.8.2 Release Notes
- Fixing missing input on smart service: Split PDF Page in Half
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Mike Schmitt 1 month ago in reply to prasanthm0197

Is it generating competely blank / empty image files for you now too? I just tried the newer version last week and this has been my experience.
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Mike Schmitt 1 month ago in reply to Michael Chirlin

Hey Michael Chirlin - just making sure you're tracking the issues I've noted in the next comment thread up - most notably, the complete failure in the "pdf to images" in the newer version, and the way the upgrade (and/or reversion) has now caused the Image Compression plug-in's main smart service to completely fail with apparently no recourse.
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Mike Schmitt 1 month ago in reply to Mike Schmitt
Also, the "Image Compression" plug-in has now been completely broken - every time I try to run it, it fails immediately and part of the tomcat error logs contains this telling message:
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Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Unable to load class 'com.github.jaiimageio.stream.RawImageInputStream' because the bundle wiring for pdftools is no longer valid.
```
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Mike Schmitt 1 month ago in reply to Mike Schmitt

attn Michael Chirlin - just making sure you're tracking on this.
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Mike Schmitt 1 month ago

I just upgraded from 2.6.0 to 2.8.1, and "convert PDF to images" seems to have been broken completely instead of the "black background" bugfix -- now, it generates a list of image files but they're all empty files, not numbered, and don't display / download at all.
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Michael Chirlin 1 month ago in reply to marioseg02

Fixing this today, should be new version in the next few days.
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