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Aim Just embed a PDF (preview) into a website. This is very likely a well-known use case. Given I have this use case for showing a PDF preview, I am searching for a solution. And yes I know e.g. MDN ...
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0 answers
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I want to change bookmark (aka outline item) colors in a PDF document from black to blue. It's my understanding that pypdf can only add outline items; you can't change the properties of those already ...
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2 answers
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I'm using Pandoc to convert my Markdown (4,000 word count) file to PDF. My problem is the date won't appear on the PDF. Here's my system info: pandoc 3.7.0.2 Features: -server +lua Scripting engine: ...
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I have 100+ Forms W-2C in a single PDF, and I need to extract the populated fields into an excel file where each Form W-2C field is a header and there is one line for each Form W-2C. I am trying to ...
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I am developing a Python FastAPI backend to inject PDF accessibility compliance tags (WCAG 2.1) into existing documents generated from Adobe InDesign. The layout and visual binary bytes must remain ...
Advice
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I use Firefox as my PDF viewer while I write them in another program. How can I make the PDF automatically refresh in Firefox when the file changes? I am open to workarounds like refreshing every 5 ...
Tooling
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3 replies
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I need to perform some editing actions on many PDFs across a wordpress site programmatically. Using MPDF I can access and edit many of them just fine. The issue is a lot of these files are also ...
Advice
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9 replies
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I’m building a .NET application that needs to generate PDF documents dynamically, and I’m trying to choose an appropriate library. I’m specifically looking for a library that meets the following ...
Advice
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6 replies
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I’m working on a Laravel application where I need to generate and export a PDF file based on database records (such as appointments, payments, or invoices). I want to be able to: Generate a PDF from ...
Tooling
1 vote
5 replies
484 views

I am looking for the best open-source models, frameworks, or libraries for extracting text and structured data from PDFs with high accuracy. My use case includes: Extracting text from scanned and ...
Tooling
0 votes
4 replies
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I need to turn a list of scanned PDF, containing a form filled by people (some of the answers are handwritten, and the form contains a mix of text and checkboxes) into a JSON than I can then use to ...
3 votes
3 answers
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The following piece of code tries to validate a pdf using iText signature validator in offline mode. The repro archive contains: timestamped.pdf SwissSignRootCA.cer SwissSignTARootCA.cer Repro files:...
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1 answer
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Consider: C:\>cpdf -create-pdf -create-objstm -stdout %PDF-2.0 % % skipped % 5 0 obj <</Type/XRef/W[1 2 1]/Root 3 0 R/Size 5/Length 20 % skipped Note that "Size" is not one more (...
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I'm trying to display a PDF file inline in the browser using Laravel, but instead of showing the file, the browser downloads it. Here is my code: return Storage::disk('public')->response( $path,...
Advice
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If I wanted to go about creating an app to be deployed on laptops/desktops (Windows mostly) - either as localhost:800X in the browser or maybe even as a desktop app (using Electron?) to accomplish ...

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