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SetaPDF-Core

Produced by Setasign GmbH & Co. KG

The SetaPDF-Core component is a PHP library for low level access of PDF files.

It is the basis of all other SetaPDF products and comes with following features:

  • Reads PDF files of all available PDF versions
  • Reads and writes PDF files via special reader and writer classes
  • Repair mechanism for corrupted PDF files
  • Reads and writes protected/encrypted PDF files (Standard and Public-key Encryption) up to AES 256bit
  • Low level PDF object access
  • Access to PDF metadata
  • Access to viewer preferences
  • Access to page objects (e.g. to count pages) and their properties like dimensions, rotation,...
  • Access to pages content stream
  • Access to a pages Canvas object
  • Access to page labels
  • Access to various annotation types (e.g. links, text, or highlight annotation)
  • Access to bookmark outlines
  • Access to document level JavaScript
  • Access to PDF actions (GoTo, JavaScript, Named, Uri)
  • Access to attachments (e.g. extraction of ZUGeRD XML files)

SetaPPDF-Core

Product Type

API / SDK Windows MacOS Linux iOS Developer/forensics tool Perpetual

PDF Type

PDF/A-3 ZUGFeRD Tagged PDF PDF 1.7 (ISO 32000-1:2008)

Features

Add, review & markup annotations Edit PDF content Insert, delete, move pages Resize / crop pages File attachments Collections / Portfolios / Binders AES-256 (PDF 2.0)
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