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imal hasaranga perera edited this page May 5, 2018 · 1 revision

These are the Apache Pdf box features

Extract Text

Extract Unicode text from PDF files.

Split & Merge

Split a single PDF into many files or merge multiple PDF files.

Fill Forms

Extract data from PDF forms or fill a PDF form.

# Preflight

Validate PDF files against the PDF/A-1b standard.

Print

Print a PDF file using the standard Java printing API.

Save as Image

Save PDFs as image files, such as PNG or JPEG.

Create PDFs

Create a PDF from scratch, with embedded fonts and images.

Signing

Digitally sign PDF files.

Hypothetically PDFLib should reach to a level where it can most of the features that Apache PDF box or IText performs, so I can say this is the road map for this library so anyone who is eagerly waiting to contribute to the project you can select one from the above list which we have not implemented yet can start working.

I'm sure this is not an easy task because of the language limitations but lets try our best to get this library to the php community.

right now we are using Ghostscript as a dependency for this project but I would be really happy if we can do this via pure php and if not we should write our own binary which can be used from our php classes to manipulate pdf files so the user of this library does not need to worry about installing any third party libs

surely this is not easy but i'm sure there a people out there who is ready for an exciting journey