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• Extract text or images from PDFs
• Add text and images to PDFs
• Merge PDF files together; add or delete PDF pages
• Add or manipulate bookmarks and annotations
• Obtain font, style and X-Y coordinates for text strings
• Password-protect PDFs
• Optimize PDFs for fast web view (aka linearization)
• Obtain X-Y coordinates, size, and colorspace info for graphics within a PDF
• Manipulate PDFs in some other way

Adobe PDF Library

Adobe PDF Library

This powerful, low-level general purpose API is capable of most operations you might need to perform on PDFs. It is available on multiple platforms, with interfaces for C, .NET and Java programming environments.

Extensive code samples help you jump start your implementation; and our Software Evaluation Program enables you to easily test the API in your own environment before licensing.

• Create PDFs from scratch

Adobe PDF Library

Adobe PDF Library

See above.

• Create PDFs from PostScript files

Adobe Normalizer

Adobe Normalizer

This is the underlying API of Distiller.

• Create PDFs from InDesign on a server

Adobe InDesign Server

Adobe InDesign Server

Offload repetitive tasks to a server-based InDesign engine, allowing your designers and knowledge workers to spend more time on their higher-value core competencies.

Note that, in addition to creating PDFs, InDesign Server can also output files in editable InDesign format, for further editing.

• Create PDFs by printing to a printer driver

Adobe PDF JobReady

Adobe PDF JobReady

The PDF JobReady toolkit includes a client-side printer driver which creates an encrypted PDF in accordance with the embedded joboptions. This file is then delivered to the PDF JobReady server which decrypts it for further print workflow processing.

• Display PDFs onscreen without Reader
• Programmatically print PDFs (silent printing)

Adobe PDF Library

Adobe PDF Library

See above.

• RIP PDFs natively for proofing/printing

Adobe PDF Print Engine

Adobe PDF Print Engine

Adobe's native PDF RIP technology, available for software developers.

• Convert PDFs to image format

Adobe PDF Library, PDF2IMG

Adobe PDF Library, PDF2IMG

PDF2IMG is an easy-to-deploy command-line utility optimized for web environments. Various parameters are available, and make it suitable for most applications. See for yourself: try our online demo.

Use the Adobe PDF Library for greater control, tighter integration, and broader platform support.

• Preflight PDFs for printing

callas pdfToolkit

callas pdfToolkit

Create preflight profiles in Acrobat, and use them to drive preflight operations in a server environment using pdfToolkit.

• Test PDFs for conformance to PDF/A

callas pdfaPilot

callas pdfaPilot

Check for conformance against PDF/A-1a or PDF/A-1b. pdfaPilot also includes "fixup" capabilities to bring files with minor errors into proper conformance.

• Display PDFs onscreen without Reader

Adobe PDF Library

Adobe PDF Library

See above.

• Create thumbnail images of PDF pages
• Convert PDFs to image format

Adobe PDF Library, PDF2IMG

Adobe PDF Library, PDF2IMG

See above.