Re: Has anyone used PDFBOX to Merge two PDF pages into one?

Yes we use PDF box alle the time - it works great on IBMi .

We are solving the same taks you have - simply by the JAVA command line
and the use merge option.

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 9:52 PM Tom Deskevich <TDeskevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I have a small PDF created with an annotation (a quarter of an inch),
using PDFBOX. I want to take page one of an existing PDF and place the
small PDF on the top, to give the appearance that the small annotation PDF
is part of the existing PDF. I need to do this because there are times that
there is a stamp in the upper right corner of the existing PDF and the
annotation must be in upper right corner.
I cannot create a cover page with just the annotation, I am under state
regulations that prohibits this. Too bad, because I knew how to do that.
I am new to both PDFBOX and JAVA. Please include as much detail as
possible.

Soliciting help from stack overflow, I created this code below, which just
puts the small annotation page as a new page at the end of the PDF.
Parameter 0 is the small pdf with the annotation, Parameter 1 is the
existing pdf that I want to overlay with the annotation.
I also tried to extract the text from doc1 (code not shown) to try to
determine if a stamp exists in the upper right corner, but the existing
PDF is created from a TIFF image so it did not give me any text back.
TIA.
// Small annotated PDF DOC
File file = new File(args[0]);
PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load(file);
// Existing PDF to place annotation page on DOC1
File file1 = new File(args[1]);
PDDocument doc1 = PDDocument.load(file1);
// Get first page from small annotated PDF and do addpage
// to existing PDF.
PDPage page = doc.getPage(0);
doc1.addPage(page);
doc1.save(args[1]);
System.out.println("Documents overlayed");
doc1.close();
doc.close();

}
}


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