https://github.com/mattdeboard/clj-itext

An attempt to make the iText API not the most terrible thing in the world.
https://github.com/mattdeboard/clj-itext

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An attempt to make the iText API not the most terrible thing in the world.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mattdeboard/clj-itext
• Owner: mattdeboard
• Created: 2012-08-04T08:24:34.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-09-05T01:35:45.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-14T03:30:25.357Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: Clojure
• Size: 142 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# clj-itext

The iText API is extremely painful. This is an effort to make it less so by wrapping the Java bindings in more friendly interfaces.

Features:

 - Simplified PdfReader instance generation

 - ...more coming soon...

## Example Usage

``(pdf<- "/path/to/sample.pdf")``

returns a ``PdfReader`` instance with the following metadata:

 - ``:bookmarks``

 - ``:pagecount``

 - ``:filename``

Using metadata removes the need to write extra code in your application to get this information. It can be accessed via ``meta``, e.g. ``(meta (pdf<- "/path/to/sample.pdf"))``.

Also included is the ``burst`` fn:

``(burst (pdf<- "/path/to/sample.pdf"))``

This fn takes a PDF with *n* pages and explodes it into *n* PDF files, one for each page. Its return value is a list of the new filenames. (By default, for a file named ``sample.pdf``, the new filenames will be ``sample-n.pdf``, with ``n`` representing the index of that page in the master document.)

## To Do

- Smooth out ``PdfWriter`` instantiation & interaction (this is the hairiest wart on the iText API, IMO)

- Other human-friendly improvements to the API as they come up.

## License

Copyright © 2012 Matt DeBoard

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License, the same as Clojure.