Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)

The Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) is the native file format of the Adobe® Acrobat® family of products. PDF relies on the same imaging model as the PostScript page description language to describe text and graphics in a device-independent and resolution-independent manner. A document can be converted between PDF and the PostScript language; the two representations produce the same output when printed. To improve performance for interactive viewing, PDF defines a more structured format than that used by most PostScript language programs. PDF also includes objects, such as annotations and hypertext links that are not part of the page itself but are useful for interactive viewing and document interchange. However, PDF lacks the general-purpose programming language framework of the PostScript language.

Using the ImageGear PDF API allows you to load, save, edit and process native PDF and PostScript documents. The ImageGear PDF Component can also perform rasterization of PDF and PostScript documents, converting them to bitmaps. The component also provides you with the ability to extract text from loaded PDF and PostScript documents

ImageGear PDF component provides full multi-page reading and writing support for the entire document as well as a specified set of pages. You can detect, read, write, append, insert, replace, swap, and delete a specified page in the PDF document.