Document Management

DDV manages document data through the DocumentManager class, which can implement functions such as creating, deleting, and merging documents.

The Dynamsoft.DDV.documentManager instance will be created automatically as soon as DDV is initialized.

Create a new document

Use createDocument() method to create a new document in DDV, can also specify the document’s name, author and creationDate at the same time.

const docManager = Dynamsoft.DDV.documentManager;

// Specify the name, author and creationDate
const firstDoc = docManager.createDocument({
    name: "first_document",
    author: "DDV",
    creationDate: "D:20230101085959-08'00'",
    });

// Document's name and creationDate will be generated automatically, and author will be blank, if they are not specified
const secondDoc = docManager.createDocument();

firstDoc and secondDoc above are the document objects, please refer to Page Management and see how to manage the page data in document.

Merge documents

DDV provides the method mergeDocuments() to merge the specified documents to a new document.

Take two documents which are created above as an example and merge them to a new document mergedDoc and delete the original documents.

// Get the documents' docUid
const docUid1 = firstDoc.uid;
const docUid2 = secondDoc.uid;

// Merge options
const mergeOptions = {
    name: "mergedDoc", // Specify the name of the new document.
    author: "DDV", // Specify the author of the new document.
    creationDate: "D:20230101085959-08'00'", // Specify the creation date of the new document.
    deleteOriginal: true, // Delete the original documents after merging.
};

// const docManager = Dynamsoft.DDV.documentManager;
// Merge two documents.
const mergedDoc = docManager.mergeDocuments([docUid1, docUid2], mergeOptions);

Copy or move pages from a specified document to another

Sometimes, may need to copy or move some pages in specified document to another document. DDV has two methods copyPagesToDocument() and movePagesToDocument() which can achieve this scenario.

Use case

• Copy the first and second pages of firstDoc to secondDoc and put them before the first page in secondDoc.

    // Get the documents' docUid
    const docUid1 = firstDoc.uid;
    const docUid2 = secondDoc.uid;
  
    // Copy Options
    const copyOptions = {
        sourceIndices: [0,1], // Specify the first and second pages
        insertBeforeIndex: 0, // Specify the location of the copied page in the new document
    };
  
    // const docManager = Dynamsoft.DDV.documentManager;
    // Copy pages
    docManager.copyPagesToDocument(docUid1, docUid2, copyOptions);
  

• Move the first and second pages of firstDoc to secondDoc and put them before the first page in secondDoc.

    // Get the documents' docUid
    const docUid1 = firstDoc.uid;
    const docUid2 = secondDoc.uid;
  
    // Move Options
    const moveOptions = {
        sourceIndices: [0,1], // Specify the first and second pages
        insertBeforeIndex: 0, // Specify the location of the copied page in the new document
    };
  
    // const docManager = Dynamsoft.DDV.documentManager;
    // Move pages
    docManager.movePagesToDocument(docUid1, docUid2, moveOptions);
  

Delete Documents

Use deleteDocuments() and deleteAllDocuments() methods to delete the existing documents.

Use case

• Delete the specified document(s), take firstDoc as an example.

    // Get firstDoc's docUid
    const docUid = firstDoc.uid; 
  
    // const docManager = Dynamsoft.DDV.documentManager;
    // Delete firstDoc
    docManager.deleteDocuments([docUid]);
  

• Delete all documents.

    // const docManager = Dynamsoft.DDV.documentManager;
    // Delete all documents
    docManager.deleteAllDocuments();
  

References

• DocumentManage Class
• Interface IDocument