Extracting multimedia annotations

[Aleks Clark]

Greetings, I'm using the ruby SDK and wish to know if it's possible to extract the raw data from the multimedia annotations embedded within a pdf. It would also be nice to be able to embed these in xfdf, but I suspect that's a non-starter?

[Aaron]

Hello Aleks,

You should be able to follow the advice at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pdfnet-sdk/0-9tjRVpG9U/zwnnl0QL8wEJ, using the Ruby Annotation sample code (http://www.pdftron.com/pdfnet/samplecode/AnnotationTest.rb.html) as a starting point.

Multimedia support within XFDF may happen at some point in the future, but is not currently available.

[Support]

Its not in Ruby, but the nice thing about PDFNet is that API is identical across languages. So you can follow the code from these articles and adopt them to Ruby:

  http://blog.pdftron.com/2013/09/11/working-with-pdf-richmedia-annotations/

  https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pdfnet-sdk/0-9tjRVpG9U/u99ciMvSM7oJ

[Aleks Clark]

excellent, thanks for the help guys.