Introducing Apryse SDK Support for Go Language

By Rachmat Hartano | 2021 Nov 23

3 min

What’s Supported with Apryse SDK for GoLang

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The Go PDF library package supports all of the Apryse SDK rich document processing functionalities, including:

Generating PDFs from Microsoft Office documents
All the standard PDF annotations and custom PDF annotations
Digital signatures
Page manipulation
Editing or merging documents
Programmatic search
Redaction
Document security
And much more

How to Get Started with Apryse SDK and GoLang

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Start using the Apryse SDK and GoLang with just a few lines of code.

Choose the platform from the Go PDF Library.
Follow the instructions to download and run the script under the Initial Setup section.

Once installed, you’re good to go, with dozens of unique document processing capabilities at your fingertips. For example, you can generate PDFs from Office documents. You can also create a PDF from scratch, and perform many other document processing actions to optimize and customize your document to taste. For instance:

How to Create a Linearized PDF Document with Apryse Go SDK

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This example demonstrates how to create a PDF document containing a blank page and linearize it for fast web view using the Apryse Go SDK.

Create a linearized.go file under go/src/pdftron/Samples/demo folder:

package main
import (
    "fmt"
    . "pdftron"
)

func main()
{
 // PDFNet must be initialized before accessing any PDFTron API    
PDFNetInitialize("demo:1630436733976:78fdd6c00300000000222fa9b8dab35afb9cc6a740157513bd83ca26dd")          
    doc := NewPDFDoc()
    page := doc.PageCreate()     // Start a new page
    doc.PagePushBack(page)     // Add the page to document
    doc.Save("output.pdf", uint(SDFDocE_linearized)) // Save the document as a linearized PDF
    doc.Close()
}

How to Convert PDF to DOCX with Apryse Go SDK

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The next example demonstrates how to convert PDF documents to DOCX. You must download Apryse’s PDF2Word Module to enable PDF to DOCX conversion.

Depending on your platform, extract the module above and put it in:

go/src/pdftron/PDFNetC/Lib/Linux

go/src/pdftron/PDFNetC/Lib/Windows

Next, create a pdf2docx.go file under go/src/pdftron/Samples/demo folder:

package main
import (
    "fmt"
    . "pdftron"
)

func main() {
 // PDFNet must be initialized before accessing any PDFTron API    
PDFNetInitialize("demo:1630436733976:78fdd6c00300000000222fa9b8dab35afb9cc6a740157513bd83ca26dd")  

// Point the PDFNet Resource Path to where PDFNetC/Lib is located at.
PDFNetAddResourceSearchPath("../../PDFNetC/Lib/")
if !PDF2WordModuleIsModuleAvailable() {
	fmt.Println("")
	fmt.Println("Unable to run the sample: PDFTron SDK Word module not available.")
	fmt.Println("---------------------------------------------------------------")
	fmt.Println("The Word module is an optional add-on, available for download")
	fmt.Println( “at https://www.pdftron.com/documentation/core/info/modules/#pdf2word-module")
	fmt.Println("")
	return
}     
fmt.Println("Converting PDF to Word")
infile := "./input.pdf"
outfile := "./output.docx"
ConvertToWord(infile, outfile)
fmt.Println("Result saved in output.docx")
}

Wrap Up

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Whether you are converting or editing PDFs using GoLang, we’ve got you covered. Our Go Language package supports all of the Apryse SDK’s rich document processing features, such as converting Office documents to PDF, while retaining the same style and formatting as the original document no matter your platform.

We hope you are as excited as we are about this new GoLang support. Feel free to contact us with any questions or suggestions!