Core API

The core API provides a range of utilities for working with PDF documents and extracting their content, including:

• Page rendering: Render pages to any Java2D graphics context, making it easy to generate images or thumbnails (Page Captures).
• Text extraction and search: Extract page text along with its position, and search documents for words or phrases.
• Programmatic redaction: Permanently remove sensitive text and content from a document.
• Programmatic annotation creation: Add annotations such as highlights, notes, links, and markup through code.
• Printing: Print documents using the standard Java printing services.

Examples can be found int the examples folder. The following is an example of how to save page captures in an SVG format

Building the Jar from Source

~$ gradle :core:core-awt:assemble

~$ mvn -pl :icepdf-core package

Build the distribution zip and tar archives

# defaultTasks allows for a call to just gradle 
~$ gradle
# or one can use the full task list 
~$ gradle projectReport, sourcesJar, genPomFileForCoreJarPub, genPomFileForViewerJarPub, osDistZip, osDistTar