Are there any open source examples of a simple Adobe Acrobat plugins (C++)?

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I am looking for an open source, simple Adobe Acrobat plugin (C++). That'd be convenient to get started to learn the plugin framework. Preference if the plugin do some text analysis (e.g., spell checking or extract all words starting with a capital letter).

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Thanks, these code samples are interesting but it's for the Adobe PDF Library (APDFL), but the Adobe Acrobat plugins.

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Franck DernoncourtAuthor

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*not for the Adobe Acrobat plugins.

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You'll find samples to get started with the framework of a plugin, especially the callback-based structure. But it's a huge API, and the chances of finding samples to help you with towards any particular project is small. Instead, you need much study of the API documentation. Text extraction usually used the PDWordFinder APIs. There's no spell checking API so you'd extract the text first, a word at a time, and check.

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You'll find samples to get started with the framework of a plugin

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Thanks, do you have a link to such a plugin just as an example? I can read the API doc but the basic plugin structure would be handy to have as a starting point.

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