A simple web service for editing pdfs, which allows to add text and images. It uses itext library to modify pdf.

API

POST /pdfeditor/

Add text/image blocks to pdf.

Request example:

{
  "referenceWidth":1000,
  "pdfUrl":"http://somehost/pdfs/1520045.pdf",
  "blocks":[
    {
      "font": "Arial",
      "fontSize":22,
      "color":"FF0000",
      "type":"text",
      "x":122,
      "y":485,
      "page":1,
      "text":"Hello"
    },
    {
      "width":200,
      "height":100,
      "type":"image",
      "x":582,
      "y":443,
      "page":1,
      "url":"http://somehost/images/8d076e76-cfd4-44c5-bce3-0cf6b0adc9e4.png"
    }
  ]
}

Response example:

{
  "pdf_url":"/pdfeditor/generated_pdfs/65858f01e7ccd8fd337df0482a422ac6124fcfe3.pdf"
}

GET /pdfeditor/generated_pdfs/:filename

Get modified pdf by url provided in response.

Deployment

This is a play 2.0.4 application. After installing scala and play, service can be started by

play start