PDFBox Signature Field not well recognized - pdf

I'm going in trouble using PDFBox 2.0.0-RC3 and producing a digital signature field into a PDF.
This is the piece of code i use:
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, URISyntaxException
{
PDDocument document;
document = new PDDocument();
PDPage page = new PDPage(PDRectangle.A4);
document.addPage(page);
PDAcroForm acroForm = new PDAcroForm(document);
document.getDocumentCatalog().setAcroForm(acroForm);
PDSignatureField signatureBox = new PDSignatureField(acroForm);
signatureBox.setPartialName("ENSGN-MY_SIGNATURE_FIELD-001");
acroForm.getFields().add(signatureBox);
PDAnnotationWidget widget = signatureBox.getWidgets().get(0);
PDRectangle rect = new PDRectangle();
rect.setLowerLeftX(50);
rect.setLowerLeftY(750);
rect.setUpperRightX(250);
rect.setUpperRightY(800);
widget.setRectangle(rect);
page.getAnnotations().add(widget);
try {
document.save("/tmp/mySignatureFieldGEN_PDFBOX.pdf");
document.close();
} catch (Exception io) {
System.out.println(io);
}
}
The code generates a pdf document, i open it with Acrobat Reader and this is the result:
PDF BOX Generated
As you can see, the signature panel on the left is void but the signature field on the left is present and works.
I generate the same PDF with PDFTron. This is the result:
PDF Tron Generated
In this case the signature panel on the left show correctly the presence of the signature field.
I would like to obtain this second case (correct) but i don't understand why PDF Box can do this.
Many thanks

add this:
widget.setPage(page);
This sets the /P entry.
Now the panel on the left appears. How did I get the idea? I got a document with such an empty signature field (from here), and compared it with yours with PDFDebugger.

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Can I apply pdfaid.setPart(3) for a PDF/A-3 document?
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public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, TransformerException
{
String resultFile = "result/PDFA-x.PDF";
FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream("src/PDFOrigin.PDF");
PDDocument doc = new PDDocument();
try
{
PDPage page = new PDPage();
doc.addPage(page);
doc.setVersion(1.7f);
/*
// A PDF/A file needs to have the font embedded if the font is used for text rendering
// in rendering modes other than text rendering mode 3.
//
// This requirement includes the PDF standard fonts, so don't use their static PDFType1Font classes such as
// PDFType1Font.HELVETICA.
//
// As there are many different font licenses it is up to the developer to check if the license terms for the
// font loaded allows embedding in the PDF.
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{
throw new IllegalStateException("PDF/A compliance requires that all fonts used for"
+ " text rendering in rendering modes other than rendering mode 3 are embedded.");
}
*/
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try
{
PDDocument docSource = PDDocument.load(in);
PDFRenderer pdfRenderer = new PDFRenderer(docSource);
int numPage = 0;
BufferedImage imagePage = pdfRenderer.renderImageWithDPI(numPage, 200);
PDImageXObject pdfXOImage = LosslessFactory.createFromImage(doc, imagePage);
contents.drawImage(pdfXOImage, 0,0, page.getMediaBox().getWidth(), page.getMediaBox().getHeight());
contents.close();
}catch (Exception e) {
// TODO: handle exception
}
// add XMP metadata
XMPMetadata xmp = XMPMetadata.createXMPMetadata();
PDDocumentCatalog catalogue = doc.getDocumentCatalog();
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
try
{
DublinCoreSchema dc = xmp.createAndAddDublinCoreSchema();
// dc.setTitle(file);
dc.addCreator("My APPLICATION Creator");
dc.addDate(cal);
PDFAIdentificationSchema id = xmp.createAndAddPFAIdentificationSchema();
id.setPart(3); //value => 2|3
id.setConformance("A"); // value => A|B|U
XmpSerializer serializer = new XmpSerializer();
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
serializer.serialize(xmp, baos, true);
PDMetadata metadata = new PDMetadata(doc);
metadata.importXMPMetadata(baos.toByteArray());
catalogue.setMetadata(metadata);
}
catch(BadFieldValueException e)
{
throw new IllegalArgumentException(e);
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// sRGB output intent
InputStream colorProfile = CreatePDFA.class.getResourceAsStream(
"../../../pdmodel/sRGB.icc");
PDOutputIntent intent = new PDOutputIntent(doc, colorProfile);
intent.setInfo("sRGB IEC61966-2.1");
intent.setOutputCondition("sRGB IEC61966-2.1");
intent.setOutputConditionIdentifier("sRGB IEC61966-2.1");
intent.setRegistryName("http://www.color.org");
catalogue.addOutputIntent(intent);
catalogue.setLanguage("en-US");
PDViewerPreferences pdViewer =new PDViewerPreferences(page.getCOSObject());
pdViewer.setDisplayDocTitle(true);;
catalogue.setViewerPreferences(pdViewer);
PDMarkInfo mark = new PDMarkInfo(); // new PDMarkInfo(page.getCOSObject());
PDStructureTreeRoot treeRoot = new PDStructureTreeRoot();
catalogue.setMarkInfo(mark);
catalogue.setStructureTreeRoot(treeRoot);
catalogue.getMarkInfo().setMarked(true);
PDDocumentInformation info = doc.getDocumentInformation();
info.setCreationDate(cal);
info.setModificationDate(cal);
info.setAuthor("My APPLICATION Author");
info.setProducer("My APPLICATION Producer");;
info.setCreator("My APPLICATION Creator");
info.setTitle("PDF title");
info.setSubject("PDF to PDF/A{2,3}-{A,U,B}");
doc.save(resultFile);
}catch (Exception e) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException(e);
}
}
PDFBox supports that but please be aware that due to the fact that PDFBox is a low level library you have to ensure the conformance yourself i.e. there is no 'Save as PDF/A-3'. You might want to take a look at http://www.mustangproject.org which uses PDFBox to support ZUGFeRD (electronic invoicing) which also needs PDF/A-3.

PDFBOX is not giving right output

I am parsing a pdf in PDFBox to extract all the text from it
public static void main(String args[]) {
PDFTextStripper pdfStripper = null;
PDDocument pdDoc = null;
COSDocument cosDoc = null;
File file = new File("C:\\Users\\admin\\Downloads\\Airtel.pdf");
try {
PDFParser parser = new PDFParser(new FileInputStream(file));
parser.parse();
cosDoc = parser.getDocument();
pdfStripper = new PDFTextStripper();
pdDoc = new PDDocument(cosDoc);
pdfStripper.setStartPage(1);
pdfStripper.setEndPage(1);
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System.out.println(parsedText);
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
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BUT its not giving any text in output
help
PDFBox extracts text similar to how Adobe Reader copies&pastes text.
If you open your document in Adobe Reader and press <Ctrl-A> to mark all text (you'll see that hardly anything is marked) and copy&paste it to an editor, you'll find that Adobe Reader also hardly extracts anything.
The reason why neither PDFBox nor Adobe Reader (nor any other normal text extractor) extracts the text from your document is that there virtually is no text at all in it! The "text" you see is not drawn using text drawing operations but instead is painted using by defining the outlines of each "character" as path and filling the area in that path. Thus, there is no indication to a text extractor that there even is text.
There actually are two characters of real text in your document, the '-' sign between the "Previous balance" and the "Payments" boxes and the '-' sign between the "Payments" and the "Adjustments" boxes. And even those two characters are not extracted as desired because the font does not provide the information which Unicode codepoint those characters represent.
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Issues with iTextsharp and pdf manipulation

I am getting a pdf-document (no password) which is generated from a third party software with javascript and a few editable fields in it. If I load this pdf-document with the pdfReader class the NumberOfPagesProperty is always 1 although the pdf-document has 17 pages. Oddly enough the document has 17 pages if I save the stream afterwards. When I now try to open the document the Acrobat Reader shows an extended feature warning and the fields are not fillable anymore (I haven't flattened the document). Do anyone know about such a problem?
Background Info:
My job is to remove the javascript code, fill out some fields and save the document afterwards.
I am using the iTextsharp version 5.5.3.0.
Unfortunately I can't upload a sample file because there are some confidental data in it.
private byte[] GetDocumentData(string documentName)
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if (File.Exists(document))
{
PdfReader.unethicalreading = true;
using (var originalData = new MemoryStream(File.ReadAllBytes(document)))
{
using (var updatedData = new MemoryStream())
{
var pdfTool = new PdfInserter(originalData, updatedData) {FormFlattening = false};
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pdfTool.Save();
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_pdfInputStream = pdfInputStream;
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_pdfReader = new PdfReader(_pdfInputStream);
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_pdfInputStream = pdfInputStream;
_pdfOutputStream = pdfOutputStream;
_pdfReader = new PdfReader(_pdfInputStream);
_pdfStamper = new PdfStamper(_pdfReader, _pdfOutputStream, pdfVersion, append);
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PdfDictionary dictionary = _pdfReader.GetPdfObject(i) as PdfDictionary;
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The extended feature warning is a hint that the original PDF had been signed using a usage rights signature to "Reader-enable" it, i.e. to tell the Adobe Reader to activate some additional features when opening it, and the OP's operation on it has invalidated the signature.
Indeed, he operated using
_pdfStamper = new PdfStamper(_pdfReader, _pdfOutputStream);
which creates a PdfStamper which completely re-generates the document. To not invalidate the signature, though, one has to use append mode as in the OP's fixed code (for char pdfVersion = '\0', bool append = true):
_pdfStamper = new PdfStamper(_pdfReader, _pdfOutputStream, pdfVersion, append);
If I load this pdf-document with the pdfReader class the NumberOfPagesProperty is always 1 although the pdf-document has 17 pages. Oddly enough the document has 17 pages
Quite likely it is a PDF with a XFA form, i.e. the PDF is only a carrier of some XFA data from which Adobe Reader builds those 17 pages. The actual PDF in that case usually only contains one page saying something like "if you see this, your viewer does not support XFA."
For a final verdict, though, one has to inspect the PDF.

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I am trying to modify an existing PDF by adding some text to the header of each page. But even the simple sample code I have below ends up generating me a blank PDF as output:
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/*
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contentStream.setFont(font, 12);
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*/
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You use
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);
This constructor is implemented like this:
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which in turn calls this
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*
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* #param sourcePage The page to write the contents to.
* #param appendContent Indicates whether content will be overwritten. If false all previous content is deleted.
* #param compress Tell if the content stream should compress the page contents.
* #throws IOException If there is an error writing to the page contents.
*/
public PDPageContentStream(PDDocument document, PDPage sourcePage, boolean appendContent, boolean compress) throws IOException
So that two-parameter constructor always uses appendContent = false which causes all previous content to be deleted.
Thus, you should instead use
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page, true, true);
to append to the current content.
Ugh, apparently the version of PDFBox we are using in our project needs to be upgraded. I just noticed that the latest API has the constructor I need:
public PDPageContentStream(PDDocument document, PDPage sourcePage, boolean appendContent, boolean compress)
So changing to this constructor and using appendContent=true, I got the above sample working.
Time for an upgrade...

Unable to get page number when using RenderListener interface to find a piece of text in PDF

iText requires coordinates to create form fields and Page Number in existing PDFs at different places.
My PDF is dynamic. So I decided to creat the PDF with some identifier text. And use TextRenderInfo to find the coordinates for the text and use those coordinates to creat the textfields and other form fields.
ParsingHelloWorld.java
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When the renderText method is called inside the MyTextRenderListener class internally processing the page content, I couldn't get the pageNumber to generate the fields in the PDF at the particular coordinates where the identifier text resides(ex Fill_in_TextField,Fill_in_SignatureField..etc ).
Any suggestions/ ideas to get the page number in my scenario.
Thanks in advance.
That's easy. Add a parameter to MyTextListener:
protected int page;
public void setPage(int page) {
this.page = page;
}
Now when you loop over the pages in ParsingHelloWorld, pass the page number to MyTextListener:
listener.setPage(pageNum);
Now you have access to that number in the renderText() method and you can pass it to your createTextField() method.
Note that I think your loop is wrong. Page numbers don't start at page 0, they start at page 1.