How can I convert a series of images to a PDF from the command line on Linux? [closed]
Using ImageMagick, you can try: convert page.png page.pdf For multiple images: convert page*.png mydoc.pdf
How do I force files to open in the browser instead of downloading (PDF)?
To indicate to the browser that the file should be viewed in the browser, the HTTP response should include these headers: Content-Type: application/pdf Content-Disposition: inline; filename=”filename.pdf” To have the file downloaded rather than viewed: Content-Type: application/pdf Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=”filename.pdf” The quotes around the filename are required if the filename contains special characters such as filename[1].pdf … Read more
How to search contents of multiple pdf files?
There is pdfgrep, which does exactly what its name suggests. pdfgrep -R ‘a pattern to search recursively from path’ /some/path I’ve used it for simple searches and it worked fine. (There are packages in Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora.) Since version 1.3.0 pdfgrep supports recursive search. This version is available in Ubuntu since Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal).
How to extract text from a PDF file?
I was looking for a simple solution to use for python 3.x and windows. There doesn’t seem to be support from textract, which is unfortunate, but if you are looking for a simple solution for windows/python 3 checkout the tika package, really straight forward for reading pdfs. Tika-Python is a Python binding to the Apache … Read more
Generating PDF files with JavaScript
I’ve just written a library called jsPDF which generates PDFs using Javascript alone. It’s still very young, and I’ll be adding features and bug fixes soon. Also got a few ideas for workarounds in browsers that do not support Data URIs. It’s licensed under a liberal MIT license. I came across this question before I … Read more
Fast and Lean PDF Viewer for iPhone / iPad / iOS – tips and hints?
I have build such kind of application using approximatively the same approach except : I cache the generated image on the disk and always generate two to three images in advance in a separate thread. I don’t overlay with a UIImage but instead draw the image in the layer when zooming is 1. Those tiles … Read more
Convert PDF to image with high resolution
It appears that the following works: convert \ -verbose \ -density 150 \ -trim \ test.pdf \ -quality 100 \ -flatten \ -sharpen 0x1.0 \ 24-18.jpg It results in the left image. Compare this to the result of my original command (the image on the right): (To really see and appreciate the differences between … Read more
Python module for converting PDF to text [closed]
Try PDFMiner. It can extract text from PDF files as HTML, SGML or “Tagged PDF” format. The Tagged PDF format seems to be the cleanest, and stripping out the XML tags leaves just the bare text. A Python 3 version is available under: https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six
Convert HTML to PDF in .NET [closed]
EDIT: New Suggestion HTML Renderer for PDF using PdfSharp (After trying wkhtmltopdf and suggesting to avoid it) HtmlRenderer.PdfSharp is a 100% fully C# managed code, easy to use, thread safe and most importantly FREE (New BSD License) solution. Usage Download HtmlRenderer.PdfSharp nuget package. Use Example Method. public static Byte[] PdfSharpConvert(String html) { Byte[] res = … Read more
ImageMagick security policy ‘PDF’ blocking conversion
Well, I added <policy domain=”coder” rights=”read | write” pattern=”PDF” /> just before </policymap> in /etc/ImageMagick-7/policy.xml and that makes it work again, but not sure about the security implications of that.