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Download PDFix SDK & CLI and Integrate it easily

1 Download PDFix SDK & CLI

We have built this SDK to be as user friendly as possible and to cover every possible scenario. Making a completely responsive PDF experience we have covered the ability for this to run on all major desktop and mobile platforms.

Please download the proper package for your operating system and architecture.

2 Get Trial License Key

Generate trial license key for your platform. We will send you a trial license key immediately into your email. Use this license key to initialize PDFix in your application. It works with the latest version only!

3 Choose your package

Follow the matrix below to choose the right packages from the PDFix SDK library.

Select the programming language:

C++ Java C#

Choose the packages:

PDFix SDK

PDF to HTML

Tesseract OCR

4 Integrate PDFix into your code

	This repository contains PDFix SDK Samples to showcase how to easily run PDFix technology on your environment.
	Samples help you to integrate PDFix technology into your applications. You will find it in our documentation.
	If you run into trouble, contact us at support@pdfix.net.
	Free 30 days Trial with the full feature set.
	Adjustable according to your solution needs.

Download from GitHub Check Code Samples

Integrate PDFix into Java applications (Netbeans, Android Studio, Eclipse)

#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include "Pdfix.h"
#include "PdfToHtml.h"
PdfToHtml_statics;
void ConvertToHtml(
  const std::wstring& email,          // authorization email   
  const std::wstring& license_key,    // authorization license key
  const std::wstring& open_path,      // source PDF document
  const std::wstring& save_path,      // output HTML file
  const std::wstring& config_path,    // configuration file
  PdfHtmlParams& html_params    // conversion parameters
) {
  // initialize Pdfix
  if (!Pdfix_init(Pdfix_MODULE_NAME))
    throw std::runtime_error("Pdfix initialization fail");
  Pdfix* pdfix = GetPdfix();
  if (!pdfix)
    throw std::runtime_error("GetPdfix fail");
  if (!pdfix->Authorize(email.c_str(), license_key.c_str()))
    throw std::runtime_error(pdfix->GetError());
  // initialize PdfToHtml
  if (!PdfToHtml_init(PdfToHtml_MODULE_NAME))
    throw std::runtime_error("PdfToHtml_init fail");
    
  PdfToHtml* pdf_to_html = GetPdfToHtml();
  if (!pdf_to_html)
    throw std::runtime_error("GetPdfToHtml fail");
  std::cout << "PDFix PDF to HTML " << pdf_to_html->GetVersionMajor() << "." <<
    pdf_to_html->GetVersionMinor() << "." <<
    pdf_to_html->GetVersionPatch() << std::endl;
    
  if (!pdf_to_html->Initialize(pdfix))
    throw std::runtime_error(pdfix->GetError()); 
  PdfDoc* doc = pdfix->OpenDoc(open_path.c_str(), L"");
  if (!doc)
    throw std::runtime_error(pdfix->GetError());
  // customize conversion 
  if (!config_path.empty()) {
    PdfDocTemplate* doc_tmpl = doc->GetDocTemplate();
    if (!doc_tmpl)
      throw std::runtime_error(pdfix->GetError());
    // load from 
    PsFileStream* stm = pdfix->CreateFileStream(config_path.c_str(), kPsReadOnly);
    if (stm) {
      if (!doc_tmpl->LoadFromStream(stm, kDataFormatJson))
        throw std::runtime_error(pdfix->GetError());
      stm->Destroy();
    }
  }
  PdfHtmlDoc* html_doc = pdf_to_html->OpenHtmlDoc(doc);
  if (!html_doc)
    throw std::runtime_error(pdfix->GetError());
  /* set html_param
  html_params.type = kPdfHtmlResponsive;
  html_params.width = 1200;    
  html_params.flags |= kHtmlExportJavaScripts;
  html_params.flags |= kHtmlExportFonts;
  html_params.flags |= kHtmlRetainFontSize;
  html_params.flags |= kHtmlRetainTextColor;
  html_params.flags |= kHtmlNoExternalCSS | kHtmlNoExternalJS | kHtmlNoExternalIMG | kHtmlNoExternalFONT;
  */
  if (!html_doc->Save(save_path.c_str(), &html_params, nullptr, nullptr))
    throw std::runtime_error(pdfix->GetError());
  html_doc->Close();
  doc->Close();
  pdf_to_html->Destroy();
  pdfix->Destroy();
}

Integrate PDFix into C++ applications (XCode, Visual Studio)

#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include "Pdfix.h"
void Initialization(
  const std::wstring& email,                   // authorization email   
  const std::wstring& license_key              // authorization license key
) {
  // initialize Pdfix
  if (!Pdfix_init(Pdfix_MODULE_NAME))
    throw std::runtime_error("Pdfix initialization fail");
  Pdfix* pdfix = GetPdfix();
  if (!pdfix)
    throw std::runtime_error("GetPdfix fail");
  if (pdfix->GetVersionMajor() != PDFIX_VERSION_MAJOR || 
    pdfix->GetVersionMinor() != PDFIX_VERSION_MINOR ||
    pdfix->GetVersionPatch() != PDFIX_VERSION_PATCH)
    throw std::runtime_error("Incompatible version");
  if (!pdfix->Authorize(email.c_str(), license_key.c_str()))
    throw std::runtime_error(pdfix->GetError());
  // ...
  pdfix->Destroy();
}

Integrate PDFix into C# applications

using System;
using PDFixSDK.Pdfix;
namespace PDFix.App.Module
{
    class Initialization
    {
        public static void Run( 
            String email,                                           // authorization email
            String licenseKey                                       // license key
            )
        {
            Pdfix pdfix = new Pdfix();
            if (pdfix == null)
                throw new Exception("Pdfix initialization fail. Please set correct email and license key.");
            if (!pdfix.Authorize(email, licenseKey))
                throw new Exception(pdfix.GetError());
            if (!pdfix.IsAuthorized())
                throw new Exception("Pdfix Authorization fail");
            // ...
            pdfix.Destroy();
        }
    }
}