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Extract comments in PDF file

Posted on November 3, 2021 by Siddharth Jain

Here are step by step instructions on how to extract comments in a PDF file. The steps to do it using Adobe PRO are documented here. This posts describes how to do it if you do not have Adobe PRO. … Continue reading →

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Validating PDFs

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Siddharth Jain

Sometimes you need to validate a PDF file. Here are step by step instructions on how to do so. Prerequisites: You need to have Java installed on your machine. Download preflight-app-2.0.21.jar from https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi Run it passing the path to your … Continue reading →

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Extracting images from a PDF

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Siddharth Jain

Sometimes you need to extract images inside a PDF. Here are step by step instructions on how to do that. Prerequisites: You need to have Java installed on your machine. Download pdfbox-app-1.8.16.jar from https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi. WARNING: version 2.0.21 will not work. … Continue reading →

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Concatenating pdfs

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Siddharth Jain

I need to do this every once in a while, and then forget how to do it. Instructions for Windows 1. Install Ghostscript. Get it from http://www.ghostscript.com/. On my machine it got installed under C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.05 2. Run: gswin64c -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q … Continue reading →

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