Russell-Pollari/apryse-demo

Apryse PDF generator

Minimum working example for testing Apryse PDF generation with annotations on client and server.

The issue(s)

• document.loadCanvas does not return a canvas
• On MacOS, downloading the PDF (with annotations) from the webviewer and generating a PDF with the Python SDK produce different outputs.

Setup

0. Initialise a virtual environment

   python3 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate

1. Install python requirements

   pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Create env variable with apryse license

   touch .env && echo "LICENSE=<key>" >> .env

3. Run flask application

   python server.py

   OR in docker container

   docker build -t pdf-test . && docker run -p 8000:8000 pdf-test

Create new image with annotations applied

1. Open browser to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ to interact with Apryse webviwer. This loads and displays./test_img.jpeg

2. Click Save Image

NB: This is currently broken. See browser console for error

Generate PDF with annotations on server

1. Open browser to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ to interact with Apryse webviwer. This loads and displays./test_img.jpeg

2. Add some annotations and click Export Annotations. This will save the xfdf sting of the annotations to ./annotations.xml

3. Click Generate PDF . This will convert ./test_img.jpeg and add ./annotations.xml using the Apryse Python SDKs. Result is saved in output.pdf

4. Click Download PDF to view the generated pdf

Directory structure

├── templates
│   └── index.html    # HTML and javascript for WebViewer UI
├── .gitignore
├── annotations.xml   # Exported annotations
├── convert.py        # Logic to convert image to PDF with annotations
├── Dockerfile
├── output.pdf        # Generated PDF
├── README.md
├── requirements.txt
├── server.py         # Flask server
└── test_img.jpeg     # Test image