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    Foxit PDF SDK for Web

    How to Create Stamp Annotations with Foxit PDF SDK for Web

    Click here to discover how Foxit PDF SDK for Web allows you to create stamp annotations with a simple code. The stamp annotation feature displays text or graphics intended to look as if they were stamped on the page with a rubber stamp.

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    How to Implement Foxit PDF SDK for Android using React Native plugin

    This guide will help you get started with Foxit PDF SDK for Android & the React Native plugin for Windows. Click here to read more.

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    Foxit Software Launches Major Upgrade to Web-Based PDF SDK to Speed Up Web Application Development Times and Dramatically Increase Web PDF Performance

    Foxit’s PDF SDK for Web 7.0 Offers Industry’s Highest Web Performance, Along with Other New Features to Improve User Experiences FREMONT, Calif. – (August 6, 2019)— Foxit Software, a leading provider of fast, affordable, and secure PDF solutions, today announced Foxit PDF SDK for Web 7.0, a major new release that dramatically boosts PDF rendering performance for [...]

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    Introducing Foxit PDF SDK for Web 7.0

    Our web-based JavaScript PDF viewer has received a major upgrade. Foxit PDF SDK for Web 7.0’s performance is better than ever before. Read on below as we take a deep dive into the update. Highlights: FASTEST PERFORMING WEB SDK ON THE MARKET WEB SDK 7.0 IS NOW PART OF OUR SINGLE CORE API TOUCHSCREEN CAPABILITY [...]

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    How to convert TIFF to PDF on AWS Lambda with Foxit PDF SDK (.NET)

    Foxit PDF SDK for Windows features three libraries: C++, C# (.NET) and Java, built to run in both desktop and server environments, both 32-bit and 64-bit. Foxit PDF SDK (.NET) works with AWS Lambda for creating functions in C# such as rendering, viewing, annotating, signing, protecting and managing forms in PDFs. This article will provide [...]

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    Your Guide to PDF/A Compliance

    PDF/A was conceived to fill a need for a long-term reproducible document format. Rival formats such as TIFF already existed for archiving purposes, but the content in the document wasn’t searchable. It also generally took up a lot of space due to being lossless. Read on as we give you the insider’s guide to what [...]

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    Revamp your document workflows with OCR

    What is OCR? OCR is the mechanical or electronic conversion of images, typically scanned documents, into selectable, searchable, and editable text. Good OCR software will allow you to work in multiple languages and scripts without negatively affecting its character recognition accuracy rate. Some typical benefits of OCR include: Ability to search through your documents Faster [...]

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    How to Add Attachments to PDFs with Foxit PDF SDK for iOS

    With Foxit PDF SDK, attachments refer to attachments of documents rather than file attachment annotations, which allow whole files to be embedded in a document, much like email attachments. PDF SDK provides application APIs to access attachments such as loading attachments, getting attachments, inserting/removing attachments, and accessing properties of attachments.

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    How to Add Attachments to PDFs with Foxit PDF SDK for Android

    With Foxit PDF SDK, attachments refers to attachments of documents rather than file attachment annotations, which allow whole files to be embedded in a document, much like email attachments. PDF SDK provides application APIs to access attachments such as loading attachments, getting attachments, inserting/removing attachments, and accessing properties of attachments. Example: How to embed a [...]

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    How to Apply and Manage Bookmarks with Foxit PDF SDK for iOS

    Foxit PDF SDK provides navigational tools called Bookmarks to allow users to quickly locate and link their point of interest within a PDF document. PDF bookmark is also called outline, and each bookmark contains a destination or actions to describe where it links to. It is a tree-structured hierarchy, so function FSPDFDoc::getRootBookmark must be called first to get the root of the whole bookmark tree before accessing the bookmark tree. Here, “root bookmark” is an abstract object which can only have child bookmarks without next sibling bookmarks and data (including bookmark data, destination data and action data). It cannot be shown on the application UI since it has no data. Therefore, a root bookmark can only call the function FSBookmark::getFirstChild.

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