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jPDFImages is a Java library that integrates seamlessly into your application or applet to allow you to convert PDF documents into images as well as to create or update PDF documents with images. jPDFImages provides the following functions:

jPDFImages Main Features

• Export PDF document pages as JPEG, TIFF or PNG images.
• Import images into new or existing documents.
• Support for PDF 1.7 (latest PDF format).
• Save to the file system or to Java output streams.
• Written entirely in Java - allows your application to remain platform independent.
• No need to install or configure additional drivers or software when deploying your application.

jPDFImages Exporting Images
Once a PDF document has been loaded by instantiating the PDFDocument class, the pages in the document can be exported as images in JPEG, TIFF or binary formats.  Additionally, the library can return the image of a page as a BufferedImage object.

jPDFImages Importing Images
jPDFImages is also able to import images into new pages in a document. The document can be an existing document or a new document according to the constructor used when creating the PDFDocument object. When the methods are called, the library will create new pages and size them to the image size, and then import the image into the new pages. The library looks at the DPI value in the image files to determine the size of the page in inches. When importing TIFF files, the library will create multiple pages if the TIFF file contains multiple images.

jPDFImages Getting Basic Information about the PDF Document (Title, Author, etc...)
To get basic information about the loaded PDF document, you need to get the DocumentInfo class accessible through PDFDocument.getDocumentInfo. From this class, you can get information about the document such as title, author, subject, keywords, etc.

jPDFImages Distribution and JAR Files
jPDFImages is packaged in a single jar file, jPDFImages.jar that gets installed with the evaluation sample. When distributing an application that contains jPDFImages, the jPDFImages.jar file needs to be distributed along with it and needs to be included in the class path when running the application. jPDFImages uses the Java Image I/O classes to read and write TIFF and PNG images and to decode JPEG 2000 images in PDF documents. In order for the host application to support these image formats, the library needs two additional jar files in the class path, jai_imageio.jar and jai_codec.jar. Both of these jar files are shipped with the evaluation version the library.