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

Explorer ,
Feb 02, 2022 Feb 02, 2022

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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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Feb 02, 2022 Feb 02, 2022

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LEGEND ,
Feb 03, 2022 Feb 03, 2022

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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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Feb 03, 2022 Feb 03, 2022

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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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Feb 03, 2022 Feb 03, 2022

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Oh I just saw the acrobatsdk_samplesguide.pdf (https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/acrobatsdk/pdfs/acrobatsdk_samplesguide.pdf), I guess you were alluding to it, which indeed contains some basic plug-ins.

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LEGEND ,
Feb 03, 2022 Feb 03, 2022

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The Acrobat SDK download should include all documents, headers, and samples.

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Feb 09, 2022 Feb 09, 2022

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Feb 09, 2022 Feb 09, 2022

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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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Feb 09, 2022 Feb 09, 2022

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*not for the Adobe Acrobat plugins.

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Feb 09, 2022 Feb 09, 2022

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Not exactly sure what you mean, but if you want to understand the basic plugin structure Developing Plugins and Applications is a place to start.

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Feb 09, 2022 Feb 09, 2022

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Thanks, I meant to write: these code samples https://dev.datalogics.com/adobe-pdf-library/sample-program-descriptions/c1samples/ andd
https://github.com/datalogics/adobe-pdf-library-samples/tree/master/CPlusPlus/Sample_Source are interesting but it's for the Adobe PDF Library (APDFL), and not the Adobe Acrobat plugins. I'm indeed looking for examples of Adobe Acrobat plugins to see the basic plugin structure.

 
 

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