12-18 -exportAnnotsToFDF: Exporting Annotations to FDF

Processing

Exports markup annotations in the input file as an FDF file.

Note:

  • Only markup annotations can be exported. For example, link annotations cannot be exported.
    For details on the type of each annotation and whether it is a markup annotation, see PDF Reference Version 1.7 "8.4.5 Annotation Types" or ISO 32000-1/ 32000-2 "12.5.6 Annotation Types."

Example of commands

[Executing example commands]

Extracts the markup annotations on the pages of test.pdf and export them to out.fdf.

[Windows]

AHPDFToolCmd80.exe -exportAnnotsToFDF C:\sav\out.fdf -d C:\test\test.pdf

[Linux]

AHPDFToolCmd80 -exportAnnotsToFDF /home/antenna/sav/out.fdf -d /home/antenna/test/test.pdf

Folder settings: applied

You can perform batch processing by specifying the input folder to the -d parameter and the output folder to the -o parameter. Outputs markup annotations of PDF files in the input folder to FDF files. Outputs to the output folder with a file name that changes the extension of the input file name to ".fdf."

Parameters

Parameter

Content

<outFilePath>

[required]
Sets the full path of the FDF file to output.

If the extension of the specified file name is not "fdf", "fdf" is added when the command-line outputs it.

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