LEADTOOLS PDF and Document Readers SDK

LEADTOOLS includes comprehensive PDF reading and viewing technology with advanced capabilities such as support for extraction of text, hyperlinks, bookmarks and metadata. Developers programming with .NET and WPF can take advantage of these properties to enhance their applications with dynamic document viewing, editing and assembly features.

Overview of LEADTOOLS PDF Reader

PDF File Features

Get the PDF or PS version

Encrypt and decrypt PDF files

Convert any existing PDF to PDF/A-1B

Linearize (optimize for web viewing) any existing PDF

Convert to and from any PDF version 1.2 - 1.6

Convert (Distill) postscript to PDF with optimization for eBook, Screen and Prepress

Comprehensive multipage support including

Merge existing PDF files into a single PDF
Split a single PDF into multiple PDF files
Extract, delete, insert or replace any page in existing PDF files

Read and update the Table of Content (TOC) of existing PDF files

PDF Document Features

Load PDF documents at any display resolution

Get metadata information about the PDF document such as author, title, subject and keywords

Parse the document structure by reading the PDF bookmarks and the internal links (jumps)

Extract the objects found in the document such as text characters, word and lines (without using OCR), fonts, images, rectangles and hyperlinks

Generate a raster image or thumbnail of any page from the PDF document at any resolution

Overview of LEADTOOLS Document Readers

The LEADTOOLS Document Readers allow reading images, thumbnails, text and metadata from any of the supported document formats using a uniform set of methods and properties, regardless of the document type. Programmers using the high level LEADTOOLS Document Readers interface can easily create feature-rich document viewing applications with unlimited zoom, smooth scrolling, thumbnails, metadata and text search without the need to know any specifics about the format you are using.

Supported Document Formats

PDF - Adobe Portable Document Format

XPS - Microsoft Open XML Paper Specification

TIFF, JPEG, DOC, DOCX, and any other format supported by LEADTOOLS

Other LEADTOOLS SDK Technologies Related to PDF and Document Readers

PDF Overview

OCR

Document Writers

Virtual Printer

Scanning and Capture

Formats

Document Image Processing