Features
The Adobe PDF Library provides developers with complete support for PDF creation, viewing, printing and manipulation. Integrating the PDF Library into your application will enable you to:
Extract text and images from PDFs - extract text to enable searching/indexing of PDFs. Extract images for inspection/manipulation.
Render PDFs to the screen - display PDFs on-screen, within your application, without having to rely on an external Reader call. Your users can remain within your application, and you can better control the user experience.
Programmatically print PDFs - maybe you have a large, server-based printing requirement. Or perhaps you just want your application to "silently" print a report. The PDF Library supports both of these functions.
Merge, edit, split, manipulate PDFs - the Library is the core API upon which Acrobat is built. You can split PDFs, combine pages, manipulate text and images within them, add header and footers. In addition, you have access to Adobe's security model, so you could password-protect PDFs.
Developers who use the PDF Library from Datalogics benefit from the years of Adobe expertise invested in building the Adobe PDF Library, and benefit from the following:
Forward- and backward-compatibility
The PDF Library is updated each time Adobe releases a new version of Acrobat, ensuring compatibility with the PDF Standard as it continues to evolve. And, just as current versions of Acrobat and Reader can open older PDF files, your PDF Library-enabled application can provide similar support.
Access to the Adobe Color Engine (ACE)
PDF Library-enabled applications can manage color using ACE, the same color module that's used in Acrobat.
Language interfaces for C, .NET and Java
Language interfaces are provided for C, .NET and Java (via the included DLE module).
Unicode/Double Byte Support
Support complex character sets, right-to-left reading order and other complexities of non-English languag PDFs.
Optimization, Compression and Linearization
Optimize PDFs that you create or that you process using the same techniques found in Acrobat.
Extensive Font Support
Embed and subset fonts, including Unicode fonts. Obtain detailed information about font/character usage within PDFs. An optional package of redistributable fonts (corresponding to the Adobe base 35 fonts) to ease the migration from other third-party libraries
The features and capabilities of the PDF Library are extensive; and these capabilities continue to grow through regular updates to the API. Plus, besides the Adobe PDF Library API, other toolkits, such as Adobe Normalizer are available to provide additional functionality. If you have questions about whether the PDF Library is appropriate for your application, contact us and one of our Account Representatives can follow up with you directly.