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PDFReadingMode

Parameter PDFReadingMode defines how to handle PDF files.

JSON Structure

Location in template:

ImageSourceOptions
    └── PdfReadingMode

Parent object: ImageSource object

Example:

{
    "PDFReadingMode":
    {
        "Mode": "PDFRM_RASTER",
        "DPI": 300,
        "RasterDataSource": "RDS_RASTERIZED_PAGES"
    }
}

This snippet shows only the PdfReadingMode parameter.

To use it, embed this parameter within a ImageSource object.

For the complete JSON structure, see:

Full JSON Structure

Minimal Valid JSON

Parameter Details

Parameter PDFReadingMode is configured by a PDF reading mode objects. The PDF reading mode object includes a candidate mode and a series of mode arguments. The available mode arguments of the PDF reading mode object is shown as follow.

Mode Arguments

Mode Argument Name	Mode Argument Summary
Mode	Description Specifies the operation mode.
	Type String
	Candidate Mode List PDFRM_VECTOR PDFRM_RASTER
DPI	Description Specifies the DPI used when rasterizing a PDF into images.
	Type int
	Range [100,3000]
	Default Value 300
RasterDataSource	Description Specifies a the target type.
	Type String
	Range One of the candidate mode as a string RDS_RASTERIZED_PAGES RDS_EXTRACTED_IMAGES
	Default Value RDS_RASTERIZED_PAGES

Default Setting

If the PDFReadingMode is not configured in your template file, the following settings will be used as the default setting.

{
    "PDFReadingMode": 
    {
        "Mode": "PDFRM_RASTER",
        "DPI": 300,
        "RasterDataSource": "RDS_RASTERIZED_PAGES"
    }
}

PDFReadingMode

JSON Structure

Parameter Details

Mode Arguments

Default Setting

Candidate Mode Introduction

PDFRM_RASTER

PDFRM_VECTOR