Loading and Inspecting PDFs

PdfDocument is a fluent pipeline for working with existing PDF files. You can merge documents, select pages, encrypt, and decrypt without going through the document composition API.

Loading a PDF

// From a file
PdfDocument.load(new File("input.pdf"))

// From a byte array
PdfDocument.load(pdfBytes)

// Password-protected
PdfDocument.load(new File("protected.pdf"), "password")
PdfDocument.load(pdfBytes, "password")

// Start with an empty document
PdfDocument.create()

Saving the result

op.save(new File("output.pdf"));
op.save(outputStream);

byte[] bytes = op.saveBytes();

You can also pass save options:

op.save(new File("output.pdf"), PdfSaveOptions.standard());
op.saveBytes(PdfSaveOptions.builder().compress(true).build());

Resource management

PdfDocument implements Closeable, so use try-with-resources to make sure the underlying document gets closed:

try (PdfDocument op = PdfDocument.load(new File("input.pdf"))) {
    byte[] result = op.pages("2-5").saveBytes();
}

Inspecting a document

try (PdfDocument op = PdfDocument.load(file)) {
    int pages    = op.pageCount();
    boolean enc  = op.isEncrypted();
}

Merging

Combine multiple PDFs and select which pages to include.

Security

Encrypt and decrypt PDFs with fine-grained permissions.