PDF Management VBO - Merge PDF issue

[Tejaskumar_Darji]

Hi Team,

In PDF Management utility from DX to merge PDFs it fails on some PDFs while merging and throw below error message. 

I updated latest PDFSharp DLL but still it error out while merge.

Any idea how to handle this PDF merge?

Also I see in review other folks have noticed the same so trying to find a way out for all of us.



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Thanks & Regards,
Tejaskumar Darji
Sr. RPA Consultant-Automation Developer
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[Tejaskumar_Darji]

As alternative i tried to use SabanciDx - Daily PDF Actions from DX which works on itextsharp DLL.

This throw below error upon trying on same PDFs.


But document has pages when you open PDF.

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Thanks & Regards,
Tejaskumar Darji
Sr. RPA Consultant-Automation Developer
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[ewilson · Accepted solution]

Hi @Tejaskumar_Darji,

The core issue here is that most of these PDF connectors are based on free/open source PDF libraries, and, as unfortunate as it is, these projects aren't actively maintained. The folks that handle iTextSharp actually moved it to a commercial model, although they do have an AGPL open source licensed community edition. You would definitely want to review the terms of that license before going down that path as there are some source code requirements.

Ultimately, the best way to address PDF processing, when you have no control over what version of PDF you'll be getting, is to go with a commercial library such as Adobe's PDF Services API (which is what the PDF Toolkit uses).

Cheers,
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Eric Wilson
Director, Integrations and Enablement
Blue Prism Digital Exchange
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[Tejaskumar_Darji]

Thank you Eric,

Finally, we are able to use Adobe PDF Toolkit.

If anyone comes across any issues check out the detailed thread on the PDF Toolkit here.

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Tejaskumar Darji
Sr. Consultant-Technical Lead
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