The Library can extract text from a PDF document in two ways. You can enumerate the content of a page, which will give you all content, text and graphics, in the order it was specified. Or you can use a WordFinder utility to return a list of words,... Read More

To determine if a PDF document is a Portfolio, look at the document Root dictionary to see if “Collection” appears there. The /Root directory is part of the structure of the PDF document. In a Portfolio PDF document, multiple /Root directories... Read More

Your application must be able to read and parse the text input format, including HTML, XML, RTF, or Microsoft Word. The Library does not provide this service. After your application has read the input file and determined the specifications for the... Read More

Using the Adobe PDF Library, you can access the XML structure behind an XFA form field. XFA, or XML Forms Architecture, is a set of proprietary XML specifications for use with web forms. XFA forms are saved within a PDF document. If you want to merge... Read More