Thumbnails of PDF's to place into PDF's
On Thursday we were given a new project by a client which was a new task for us. They have scans of documents, which are individual images and have been converted into PDF's. They need a program which can take these images, convert them into smaller thumbnails, and then insert the thumbnails into a new document. All of this needs to be generated on the fly, of course.We typically develop using open-source technologies, where available. In this instance, we've been utilizing iText for most PDF document processing. However, iText doesn't do extraction of documents very well. It looks like a commercial product, like JPedal, Apose, Argus, Big Faceless or PDF Tools, would run anywhere between $599 and $1299 for a single server instance. In this case, that's more than the client wants to pay.
As a last ditch effort, we found PDF Box which is an Open Source project, and has some good pre-packaged tools. Documentation is very, very sparse.
We started coding the solution on Friday, and should be done by Monday afternoon. If it's of any interest, I'll post up some of the solution.
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