Access PDF pages to add, copy, delete or rearrange using JavaScript

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To access a PDF page.

JavaScript

async function main() {
  const doc = await PDFNet.PDFDoc.createFromURL(filename);

  // Access a PDF page
  const page = await doc.getPage(page_num);
}
PDFNet.runWithCleanup(main);

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About working with pages

A high-level PDF document contains a sequence of Page objects, as illustrated in the following figure:

PDFDoc Page sequence.

To find the number of pages in a PDF document, call PDFDoc.GetPageCount().

To retrieve a specific page of a document, use PDFDoc.GetPage(page_num). Page numbers in the document's page sequence are indexed from 1. If the given page number doesn't index a page in the current document, GetPage(page_num) returns null. For example:

JavaScript

async function main() {
  const page = await doc.getPage(page_num);
  if (page != null)
  {
    console.log("Document does contain page#: %d", page_num);
  }
  else
  {
    console.log("Document does not contain page#: %d", page_num);
  }
}
PDFNet.runWithCleanup(main);

While GetPage(i) is convenient for retrieving an individual page, it's an inefficient way to enumerate every page of a document. It's better to traverse the pages with a PageIterator.

To do so, simply call PDFDoc.GetPageIterator(). This returns a PageIterator object, which provides HasNext(), Next() and Current() methods. The following code snippet shows how to print the page size for every page in document page sequence:

JavaScript

async function main() {
  const itr = await doc.getPageIterator();
  for (itr; await itr.hasNext(); itr.next())
  {
    const curritr = await itr.current();
    const mediabox = curritr.getMediaBox();
    console.log("Media box: %f, %f, %f, %f", mediabox.x1, mediabox.y1, mediabox.x2, mediabox.y2);
  }
}
PDFNet.runWithCleanup(main);

(This code finds the page size using the page's media box, which we'll talk more about in the following sections.)

To jump to a specific page with a PageIterator, call PDFDoc.GetPageIterator(page_num). If no such page exists, the index of the page will return 0. For example:

JavaScript

async function main() {
  const itr = await doc.getPageIterator(page_num);
  if (itr.next().getIndex() > 0)
  {
    console.log("Document does contain page#: %d", page_num);
  }
  else
  {
    console.log("Document does not contain page#: %d", page_num);
  }
}
PDFNet.runWithCleanup(main);