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

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

Mike Schmitt 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 4 months ago in reply to Mike Schmitt

attn Michael Chirlin - just making sure you're tracking on this.
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Mike Schmitt 4 months 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 4 months ago in reply to marioseg02

Fixing this today, should be new version in the next few days.
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Ole Jørgensen 4 months ago in reply to frankt9568

We have a Fill PDF Smart Service that fails with

???contents.error.alertMsg???
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marioseg02 5 months ago

Split PDF Pages In Hal is not working.

Cannot invoke java.lang.Boolean.BooleanValue() because this.isHorizontal = null.

I tried to add the parameter in the smart service but it did not work. any suggestions??
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prasanthm0197 5 months ago

Hello Appian AppMarket ,

We installed the latest version 2.8.1 in one of our Appian environments. The environment recently upgraded to 25.1. But we are facing issue with PDF to Image smart service. We were not able to find anything in logs. can you please look into this issue?

Thanks,

Prasanth
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Appian AppMarket 6 months ago
v2.8.1 Release Notes
- Adding smart service: Split PDF Page in Half
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