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PDF HELP, WANT TO EDIT A PDF

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:56 am
by mikefrederick
I am uploading a bunch of pdfs to a folder and everytime that i upload them i want to take the first page of the pdf and store it as a different file in a different location. I have looked through FPDF and PDFLIB and it seems easy to add a new page to a pdf but I don't know about grabbing the first page of an existing one. Does ANYONE know how I can do this??

Re: PDF HELP, WANT TO EDIT A PDF

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:02 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Dude, I have needed this capability for the last 18 months and have yet to find something that doesn't cost US$50,000 or more to do it.

Re: PDF HELP, WANT TO EDIT A PDF

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:10 pm
by mikefrederick
that is absurd, I mean I am close but so far.

Re: PDF HELP, WANT TO EDIT A PDF

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:30 pm
by RobertGonzalez
I know. I am frustrated by the whole thing myself. I have a series of very large PDFs that I want to be able to search and snag from and I can't at the moment. I searched around a lot for a solution to this and the only thing I found were server based appliances that would do it for me for an extremely large sum of cash.

Re: PDF HELP, WANT TO EDIT A PDF

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 2:15 pm
by smudgeit
Quite difficult to do this way around.

You can build PDF's from HTML with DomPDF Sorry it doesn't help your question but this is quite a cool library

This is another handy PDF post