Jacob Collins

  Jacob is the JPedal Product Lead and specialises in PDF creation and manipulation. He also develops Salesforce backend systems and contributes to marketing and support. Outside work, he’s a 1900‑rated chess player, guitarist, and French learner.

 



58 Stories by Jacob Collins

How to add an image annotation to a PDF in Java

If you’ve been struggling to find a solution for inserting image annotations into a PDF, look no further. With JPedal you now have the...
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Comparing TIFF Compression Algorithms

In this article, we will be exploring the different tiff compression techniques you can use. We will investigate their effect on different metrics such...
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How JPedal allows you to view the commands in a PDF stream

A new version of JPedal has been released and it contains an exciting new feature—the object stream decoder. JPedal is the best Java PDF...
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Apache Tika Support in JDeli

Reading image metadata in Java is now possible thanks to Apache Tika support in JDeli. With the new release of  JDeli 2023.03 which includes...
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How to copy bookmarks from one PDF to another

JPedal already has the ability to read bookmarks from PDF files so now you can chain this functionality with our OutlineWriter to copy bookmarks...
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How to debug PDF files

The first JPedal release of 2023 has just been published and with it, some exciting new features have been added to our Java PDF...
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