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PDF how-to guides in Rust

Step-by-step guides for PDF operations in Rust. Each guide includes working code, common pitfalls, and related resources.

Merge & Split

Merge PDFs in Rust Split PDF by page range Split PDF by bookmark Extract pages from a PDF Merge PDFs with table of contents

Text Extraction

Extract text from a PDF Extract text with positions Extract tables from a PDF Extract text page by page Search text in a PDF Compare PDF text content

Forms

Fill PDF form fields Flatten PDF form fields Read form field values Fill XFA form data Parse XFA form data

Rendering

Render PDF to PNG Render PDF to JPEG Generate page thumbnails

Metadata

Read PDF metadata Write PDF metadata Add XMP metadata

PDF/A & Archiving

Validate PDF/A compliance Convert PDF to PDF/A Check PDF/A conformance level Fix PDF/A validation errors Add PDF/A output intent

Security & Encryption

Encrypt a PDF Decrypt a PDF Set a PDF password Remove a PDF password Open a password-protected PDF Set PDF permissions Check PDF permissions

Digital Signatures

Add a digital signature Verify a digital signature Read signature information

Annotations

Read annotations from a PDF

Redaction

Redact text from a PDF Redact text by regex pattern GDPR-compliant redaction

Document Structure

Add bookmarks to a PDF Read bookmarks from a PDF Get page count Get page dimensions Rotate PDF pages Insert pages into a PDF Delete pages from a PDF Reorder PDF pages

Optimization

Compress a PDF Linearize a PDF Subset fonts in a PDF Check if a PDF is linearized

Fonts

Check for missing fonts

Images

Embed an image in a PDF

Content Editing

Replace text in a PDF

Watermarks & Stamps

Add a text watermark Add a stamp to a PDF

Attachments

Attach a file to a PDF Extract attachments

E-Invoicing

Create a ZUGFeRD/Factur-X invoice Extract invoice XML from a PDF

Cloud & Serverless

Process PDFs on AWS Lambda Run PDFluent in Docker Batch process PDFs in parallel Process PDFs in WebAssembly

PDF Generation

Generate a PDF from HTML

Document Info

Read the PDF version

Error Recovery

Repair a corrupted PDF

AI Extraction (Preview)

Extract text and tables for RAG/LLM Convert DOCX/PPTX/XLSX/HTML to Markdown Using the PyMuPDF API compat layer Markdown/JSON/Docling-compatible output