PDF extraction library for Android

Extract content and data from PDF documents with Nutrient Android SDK. It offers developers a way to quickly parse and read PDF content, retrieve forms or annotations, extract digital signatures, and more.

Nutrient SDKs are trusted by world’s most popular applications, including Autodesk, Disney, UBS, Dropbox, IBM, and Lufthansa. Nutrient’s powerful solutions enable seamless integration of PDF editing features into your applications, delivering reliability and efficiency to world-class enterprises.

Key capabilities

• Parse and read — Text, forms, signatures, annotations, and more

• Extract text — From each page for processing

• Form fields — Extract form info and values

• Annotations — Retrieve all annotations as JSON or XFDF

• Digital signatures — Get all validation info present in the PDF

• Extendable — Add a search UI, annotation, forms, and more

Guides for extraction

Parse content
How to parse page text, glyphs, text blocks, words, and images

Text extraction
How to extract the full text content from a PDF page or document

Page extraction
How to extract PDF pages and insert them into a new document

Extract selected text
How to retrieve selected text and text located within a selection range

Text position
How to find the location of a given text element at different granularities

Metadata
How to access a PDF’s information dictionary and XMP stream