OrdoPDFReader is an ActiveX component PDF viewer which lets you:
- View PDF files
- View PDF file annotations
- Print PDF files and their annotations with a new custom dialog box
- Extract the text content if it exists
- Practice Character Recognition on the PDF file in conjunction with Tesseract-OCR, open-source OCR software under Apache 2.0 license (https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tes...ster/README.md)
- Save all or part of a PDF to a new PDF document.
- Append or merge multiple PDF files
To view PDF file OrdoPDFReader uses PDFium (licensed under BSD by Google / Foxit). It uses recent binaries compiled by Benoît Blanchon.
PDFium_x86.dll must be in the same directory as the ActiveX component.
To merge PDF files it uses OrdoPDFMerge.dll, an activeX DLL that must be registered on the target system.
The component OrdoPDFReader.v3.ocx has no other dependency than PDFium_x86.dll, OrdoPDFMerge.dll, the common VB6 files (already present in the latest versions of Windows) and possibly a version of Tesseract-OCR/OrdoOCR if you want to use the OCR function.
Warning ! Version 3 is not binary compatible with version 2, which is still available here
The sources of a draft version of this control are available here on VB-Forums
The SDK contains a VB6 example, redistributable installers and OrdoPDFViewer which is a lightweight, multi-tab PDF viewer program that you can install as your default PDF reader.
