Jacob Collins

• https://www.idrsolutions.com/team#jacobc Jacob is the JPedal Product Manager and specialises in PDF creation and manipulation. He also develops Salesforce backend systems and contributes to marketing and support. Outside of work, he’s a 1900‑rated chess player, guitarist, and French learner.

75 Stories by Jacob Collins

Java PDF to JPEG conversion (Tutorial)

Why convert PDF files to JPEG images? A PDF is a vector image (so it is rendered when you display it at whatever size...

June 10, 2025 8 min read

Generate PDF thumbnails in Java (Tutorial)

IntroductionJava cannot automatically generate thumbnails of PDF pages, but luckily there is plenty of software which can do this. This example uses our own...

June 5, 2025 2 min read

How to manipulate PDF documents in Java (Tutorial)

Introduction PDF manipulation is a common requirement for Java developers working on document management systems, automation tools, or business applications. Whether you need to...

May 19, 2025 2 min read

PDF Merge in Java (Tutorial)

Introduction Java developers working with PDF documents are always looking to enhance functionality in their document workflows. You would need a PDF library for...

May 19, 2025 2 min read

Testing PDF Merging: Performance and Content Integrity

We’ve been making progress on improving our PDF merge tool JPedal (JPedal is the best Java PDF library for developers), and I was curious...

May 19, 2025 3 min read

How to extract text from PDF files as YAML (Tutorial)

This blog post shows you how to convert a PDF to YAML, by extracting marked content with structure tags. What is structured PDF? Some...

May 14, 2025 1 min read