Industry-Leading PDF Support

The ImageGear PDF module lets you read and rasterize Adobe PDF, PostScript (PS), and Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files. Resulting images can be used with any ImageGear function/module and written out in any format supported by ImageGear to create applications of unsurpassed power and flexibility.

Highlights

The PDF module works through the core ImageGear API offering extra control flexibility by using image control parameters.

Convert PDFs for use with your existing document management systems
Display and print PDFs without any additional components
Convert PDFs for use in Web pages (without requiring your readers to install file viewers)

The module also provides the capability to write images out as PDF files. For example, combine this with ImageGear's ISIS module and you can create a system for scanning documents directly to PDF.

Read Support

PDF 1.4 standard used by Acrobat 5 (and any previous versions)
PostScript (PS) level 3
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
Multi-page file support (PDF and PS only); one-page-per-image
Rasterizes at any resolution up to the limits of system memory
Text and graphic anti-aliasing
Application controllable resolution, color depth, anti-aliasing color depth and text encoding
Included set of 35 PDF fonts for imaging documents

Write Support

Creates files conforming to PDF 1.4 standard used by Acrobat 5
Uncompressed 1-, 4-, 8-, and 24-bit-per-pixel images
Compressed CCITT G3 and G4 1-bit-per-pixel images
8 and 24 bit per pixel JPEG compression

PDF Text Extraction

PDF Text extraction has been added to the PDF module. ImageGear can read the original PDF file and extract the textual content at just about 100% accuracy (English text is approximated at close to 100%, but some symbols in the extracted text (i.e., hyphens) may be approximated incorrectly). This is not OCR output; rather the software scans the original source document (a PDF file), ignores all the format characters and notation, and outputs all the words as a text file.

Exceptions

PDF support is compatible with PDF 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 as defined in the Portable Document Format Reference Manual Version 1.3 of March 11, 1999, distributed by Adobe Systems Incorporated, except as noted with the following exceptions:

Masked images
Type 2 (smooth shading) Pattern color spaces, although the operator for smooth-shaded fills is implemented
Native Separation and DeviceN color spaces - the alternate space is always used
Native ICCBased color spaces - the alternate space is always used
In-RIP trapping

PS/EPS support is compatible with the Level 3 PostScript (TM) language with the following exceptions:

Native Separation and DeviceN color spaces - the alternate space is always used
Settable ProcessColorModel for page devices, except for a very few special devices
IODevices other than %stdin, %stdout, %stderr, %lineedit, %statementedit, %os%, and (if configured) %pipe%