topic RE: How can we merge different-2 pdf into one pdf in Product Forum

How can we merge different-2 pdf into one pdf

Chankotra1998 — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 06:49:00 GMT

I have a multiple pdf files, I want to merge all pdf files into one pdf. Can you please help me?

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Sahil Chankotra
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RE: How can we merge different-2 pdf into one pdf

ewilson — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 13:48:00 GMT

Hi @Chankotra1998,

There are a few tools on the DX that can be used for merging PDFs. Here area a few links:

https://digitalexchange.blueprism.com/dx/entry/3439/solution/pdf-management-2
https://digitalexchange.blueprism.com/dx/entry/9648/solution/blue-prism---pdf-toolkit

The first link is for a connector that only handles splitting and merging of PDFs, but I don't believe it requires any special web service account creation. So you might want to give it a try first. The connector on the second link supports more functionality, but it requires an account with Adobe DC.

Cheers,

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Eric Wilson
Director, Partner Integrations for Digital Exchange
Blue Prism
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RE: How can we merge different-2 pdf into one pdf

Chankotra1998 — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 14:12:00 GMT

Hi Eric,

first thank you for your reply. I can use this DX link but my organization doesn't give me access to use this. So can you please tell me how can I do this via code stages or any other methods?

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Sahil Chankotra
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RE: How can we merge different-2 pdf into one pdf

ewilson — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 12:46:00 GMT

Hi @Chankotra1998,

Are you able to download the connector at all? If so, you can open the file in any text editor (it's just XML) and see the code and associated libraries that are used. You can then just copy-and-paste that into your own BP VBO.

Cheers,

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Eric Wilson
Director, Partner Integrations for Digital Exchange
Blue Prism
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RE: How can we merge different-2 pdf into one pdf

drubi — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 13:05:00 GMT

Hi Eric!

The dll for first link for the "Function for PDF Management" VBO isn't available on GitHub:

"Dependencies:
This VBO uses the PdfSharp library (PdfSharp.dll). You can download a copy of the required DLL from the following link:
https://github.com/blue-prism/PDFManagement/raw/master/PdfSharp.dll"

Do you have an updated link?

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David Rubiano
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RE: How can we merge different-2 pdf into one pdf

ewilson — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 13:49:00 GMT

Hi @drubi,

We've just updated the asset card on the DX. It includes a new download link to the library under the Documents section.

https://digitalexchange.blueprism.com/dx/entry/3439/solution/pdf-management-2

Cheers,

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Eric Wilson
Director, Integrations and Enablement
Blue Prism Digital Exchange
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RE: How can we merge different-2 pdf into one pdf

drubi — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 14:03:00 GMT

Hi @ewilson

Thanks alot!

Cheers,

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David Rubiano
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RE: How can we merge different-2 pdf into one pdf

GopinathVenkat1 — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 04:52:00 GMT

Hi Eric,
The Merger is not working at all and getting the below error.

"Internal : Could not execute code stage because exception thrown by code stage: Cannot handle iref streams. The current implementation of PDFsharp cannot handle this PDF feature introduced with Acrobat 6."

What could be possible way to resolve this error or any alternative solution?

Got the above error while trying merge pdf please help to resolve the issue.

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Gopinath Venkatesan
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RE: How can we merge different-2 pdf into one pdf

Tejaskumar_Darji — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 09:16:00 GMT

Hello Gopinath,

Please check this thread for the answer to same question here

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If I was of assistance, please vote for it to be the "Best Answer".

Thanks & Regards,
Tejaskumar Darji
Sr. Consultant-Technical Lead
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RE: How can we merge different-2 pdf into one pdf

ewilson — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 10:26:00 GMT

Hello @Gopinath Venkatesan,

The feature does work, but only for certain versions of the PDF specification. In your case, your PDF is based on spec 1.5 or later. Unfortunately, the maintainers of PDFSharp haven't implemented support for several features of newer PDF specs.

This is discussed on their FAQ page.

Cheers,

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Eric Wilson
Director, Integrations and Enablement
Blue Prism Digital Exchange
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RE: How can we merge different-2 pdf into one pdf

LuisCanales — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 03:46:00 GMT

Hi @ewilson.

I'm trying to execute the "Merge Files" action, but I'm facing the following error.

Should I do something else besides this: "Copy "PdfSharp.dll" to the Blue Prism installation folder "C:\Program
Files\Blue Prism Limited\Blue Prism Automate""?

Thank you in advance.

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Luis Canales
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RE: How can we merge different-2 pdf into one pdf

ewilson — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 13:43:00 GMT

@LuisCanales,

That error seems to indicate the robot doesn't have permissions to access the target folder. I'm assuming this is where you're trying to write the newly merged PDF?

Cheers,

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Eric Wilson
Director, Integrations and Enablement
Blue Prism Digital Exchange
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RE: How can we merge different-2 pdf into one pdf

LuisCanales — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 17:13:00 GMT

@ewilson:

It's working now, thanks for your help!

Cheers,

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Luis Canales
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RE: How can we merge different-2 pdf into one pdf

sahana.mohan — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 06:33:00 GMT

Hi Eric,

Is there any workaround for this issue? I want to merge multiple PDFs to one.

Internal : Could not execute code stage because exception thrown by code stage: Cannot handle iref streams. The current implementation of PDFsharp cannot handle this PDF feature introduced with Acrobat 6.

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Sahana Mohan
Lead Software Engineer
SS&C Blue Prism
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RE: How can we merge different-2 pdf into one pdf

ewilson — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 16:09:00 GMT

Hello @sahana mohan,

The PDFSharp folks have released a beta version of a revised PDFSharp library. I haven't tested it myself, but it may help you out. You can download the Nuget package from the link below (use the Download package link on the right of the screen). If you're not familiar with Nugets, they're basically just zip files. Once you download the package you can change the file extension to ".zip" and open it with File Explorer, WinZip, etc. From there, you'll want to pull out the PDFSharp DLL and place it in your Blue Prism Automate folder. Then you can try your process again and see if it's capable of dealing with those newer PDFs.

https://www.nuget.org/packages/PDFsharp/6.1.0-preview-1#readme-body-tab

Cheers,

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Eric Wilson
Director, Integrations and Enablement
Blue Prism Digital Exchange
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RE: How can we merge different-2 pdf into one pdf

RobinSmith — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 21:17:00 GMT

In my experience, Supertool will be beneficial to you if you want to merge multiple PDF files into one. There are also other basic features available for editing PDFs, such as color PDFs.

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Robin Smith
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Re: How can we merge different-2 pdf into one pdf

sonuiiml — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:06:43 GMT

Hi Team,
I have the same requirement for our project. However, the nuget website to download pdfsharp.dll is blocked. is there any way the dll file can be attached here?
Thanks

Re: How can we merge different-2 pdf into one pdf

Daniel_Sanhueza — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 21:50:28 GMT

Hello 🙂

Try with pdfpig https://digitalexchange.blueprism.com/dx/entry/3439/solution/pdfpig

Regards

Re: How can we merge different-2 pdf into one pdf

devneetmohanty07 — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:38:22 GMT

Hi @sonuiiml ,

You can try to download the same from my GitHub repository as here we cannot attach any files on the forum. I have the DLL listed under Dependencies folder and you can even use the release file if it's possible where I have the business object created with Split and Merge PDF files actions.