Java PDF Extraction Library

PDFTron SDK benefits include:

• Use Java PDF extraction to extract digital signatures (timestamps, etc.)
• Intuitive page content extraction based on a concept of graphical elements
• High-quality and efficient text recognition engine (pdftron.PDF.TextExtractor). Use TextExtractor to extract structured Unicode text including style and positioning information from any PDF document. The simple-to-use API has advanced options related to hidden or duplicated text, ligature expansion, etc.
• Low-level text extraction (including positioning information for text runs and individual characters)
• Complete access to the graphics state (for color spaces and colorants, dash properties, etc.)
• Full access to fonts, including glyph outlines
• Image extraction. All compression filters allowed in PDF are supported and images can be optionally extracted in RAW format
• Image color-conversion and normalization filters
• Full access to marked content (e.g. used in tagged PDF documents to preserve logical structure or to mark transparency groups)
• Full access to page form fields and annotations
• Extraction of embedded fonts, ICC color profiles, U3D streams, embedded files, etc.
• Access to a document's metadata
• High-level Logical Structure API and support for 'Tagged' PDF documents
• Extract and render PDF layers (also known as Optional Content Groups, or OCGs)