Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Convert PDF File to Excel Format, Manipulate Tables in Existing PDF in Android Apps

What's New in this Release?

Aspose development team is excited to announce the release of Aspose.PDF for Android via Java17.12.0..It has been released for android platforms and ready to be used in Android Applications. It offers the feature to search and parse simple tables which already exist in PDF document. This new feature in the API has come with the addition of new class com.aspose.pdf.TableAbsorber which provides the capabilities to search and manipulate the tables in PDF documents. The usage of TableAbsorber is very much similar to existing TextFragmentAbsorber Class. This release has implemented support for gradient color in Aspose.PDF for Android via Java 17.12, in order to apply gradient color to the Graph. The feature can be used with new property PatternColorSpace and class GradientAxialShading which has been added into com.aspose.pdf.drawing Package. The code snippet on blog announcement page demonstrates the usage of new added properties and classes, in order to apply gradient color. Since Inter-File Formats Conversion has been an interesting feature of the APIs offered by Aspose – Aspose team has added support to convert PDF file into Excel format. This new release of the API offers two different methods which can be used according to users requirements regarding conversion, Using com.aspose.pdf.SaveFormat Class and Using ExcelSaveOptions Class. Along with the new features, which have been shared above, it has also made some bug fixes in this release of the API – which can be seen in release notes section of the API documentation. Some important features and enhancements included in this new release are listed below
  • Implementation com.aspose.pdf.TableAbsorber
  • PDF to EXCEL conversion support
  • Handle extracted text based on columns
  • PatternColorSpace support in new generator
  • Checking the status of Concatenation
  • java.lang.NullPointerException when creating com.aspose.pdf.engine.commondata.text.segmenting.TextSegmenter
  • Adopted TextFragmentCollection for Java Iterable interface"
  • Pdf to text: space between text increased
  • The extracted text from pdf is incorrect
Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Pdf for Android documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Pdf for performing different tasks like the followings.
Overview: Aspose.Pdf for Android

Aspose.Pdf for Android is a PDF document creation & manipulation c omponent that enables Android applications to read, write & manipulate PDF document without using any other third party application. It allows PDF compression options, table creation & manipulation, support for graph objects, extended security controls, custom font handling, add or remove bookmarks, create table of contents, add, update, delete attachments & annotations, import or export PDF form data, print PDF docs &  much more.

More about Aspose.Pdf for Android

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