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Description	Fully featured Java PDF viewer
Jar Path	org.jpedal.examples.simpleviewer.SimpleViewer

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How to run the code

Windows:	java -cp %jpedalDir%/jpedal.jar org/jpedal/examples/simpleviewer/SimpleViewer
MacOS X Linux:	java -cp $jpedalDir/jpedal.jar org/jpedal/examples/simpleviewer/SimpleViewer

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Other details/screenshot

The SimpleViewer solution is designed as a general purpose java PDF viewer which also showcases the extraction functionality of the JPedal Library.

Features include:

PDF Text Extraction. Snapshot Facility. Bookmarks. Font information and document properties. Full PDF text search Page navigation functions. Page scaling and rotation. Also opens JPG, PNG and TIFF files

Image Extraction in JPG, PNG and TIFF formats. Batch PDF Text Extraction. Batch PDF Image Extraction. PageFlow and PageTurn modes n-up PDF Page Extraction Integration with iText PDF creation library Configuration dialog Advanced PDF Printing

All these functions can be used "as is" or customised to suit your requirements.

 

Quick text extraction

Dragging the mouse over a text area will highlight text. Pressing the menu button brings up a set of extraction options.

 

Individual Image extraction

Click on an image (highlights the image outline) and press menu to extract a single image form the page. The Export menu option allows you to save all the images in a PDF file from the PDF viewer.

 

Speed up SimpleViewer: By including -Dsun.java2d.ddscale=true in the command line, SimpleViewer should run faster. This command tells JPedal to use hardware acceleration if available.

 

Links to related articles

Getting started tutorial
Additional optional libraries lists items which may be needed for some PDFs or functionality.
JVM options available on startup which can customise memory usage, image quality and lots of other settings.
MultiViewer - Adds the ability to open multiple PDF files in separate panes to the SimpleViewer.
AppletViewer - provides a version of SimpleViewer running as an Applet
Demo of drag and drop functionality in PDF Viewer.
Tutorials section contains a whole section of tutorials on integrating and totally customizing the PDF Viewer for your own applications.
JPanelDemo provides a very barebones java PDF viewer if you wish to build your own PDF viewer rather than tailor the existing examples.