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How to add text to a PDF using Java
Problem Description
How to add text to a PDF using Java.
Solution
Following is an example program to add text to a PDF document using Java.
import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageContentStream; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font; public class AddingTextToAPdf { public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException { //Loading an existing document PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load(new File("C:/pdfBox/AddText_IP.pdf")); //Creating a PDF Document PDPage page = doc.getPage(0); PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(doc, page); //Begin the Content stream contentStream.beginText(); //Setting the font to the Content stream contentStream.setFont( PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 16 ); //Setting the position for the line contentStream.newLineAtOffset(25, 725 ); String text = "This is an example of adding text to a page in the pdf document. we can add as many lines as we want like this using the draw string method of the ContentStream class"; //Adding text in the form of string contentStream.showText(text); //Ending the content stream contentStream.endText(); System.out.println("Content added"); //Closing the content stream contentStream.close(); //Saving the document doc.save(new File("C:/pdfBox/AddText_OP.pdf")); //Closing the document doc.close(); } }
Input
Output
java_apache_pdf_box
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