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Since youre reading this, its probably obvious by now that i could though it ended up being much easier than i was expecting. Merging pdf files using the datalogics pdf java toolkit. The datalogics pdf webapi offers secure cloudbased restful apis for pdf processing, based on foundation technologies from adobe. This repository contains samples for use with datalogics pdf java toolkit please note that even though the samples are mit licensed, you still require a license from datalogics for pdf java toolkit in order to run these samples. The code snippets below show how to add most of the annotation types found in adobe acrobat, the full gist shows more and is commented with more detailed information.
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