add text to pdf file in Share point 2010 library.

Question

Hi friends,

I wann to add some text to pdf file which is placed at share point document library. adding the new text i wann to save it back to same or another library. Please suggest how i can do this? Please share links / code if any.

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Regard, Ravindra Patil

Answer 1

Ravindra,

Please follow the steps to achieve this,

1,Read all the contents[bytes or stream based in pdf from library .

2,Append your string bytes to source bytes and write back to pdf.
3,You may use the iText opensource to generated the pdf in formatted contents.

OR

Enable the Document Conversion Service [ You must have SP2010 enterprise version] to convert the pdf to Word.

Update the word file and convert back to PDF.

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Murugesa Pandian.,MCTS|App.Devleopment|Configure

Answer 2

Please refer the below articles to insert the text using itextSharp.dll library,

http://forums.asp.net/t/1444178.aspx/1

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3992617/itextsharp-insert-text-to-an-existing-pdf

So you need to read the existing file form the SharePoint document library , and append the text

in this file then update the existing file or add the file in new library.

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