itext Split PDF Vertically

Question

I have requirement where I have to split a PDF page right at center vertically. I searched through various posts and could not identify the right way to do it

I want

Answer 1

You can try this method using PdfCopy, intermittently manipulating the PdfReader copied from:

void splitIntoHalfPages(InputStream source, File target) throws IOException, DocumentException
{
    final PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(source);

    try (   OutputStream targetStream = new FileOutputStream(target)    )
    {
        Document document = new Document();
        PdfCopy copy = new PdfCopy(document, targetStream);
        document.open();

        for (int page = 1; page <= reader.getNumberOfPages(); page++)
        {
            PdfDictionary pageN = reader.getPageN(page);
            Rectangle cropBox = reader.getCropBox(page);
            PdfArray leftBox = new PdfArray(new float[]{cropBox.getLeft(), cropBox.getBottom(), (cropBox.getLeft() + cropBox.getRight()) / 2.0f, cropBox.getTop()});
            PdfArray rightBox = new PdfArray(new float[]{(cropBox.getLeft() + cropBox.getRight()) / 2.0f, cropBox.getBottom(), cropBox.getRight(), cropBox.getTop()});

            PdfImportedPage importedPage = copy.getImportedPage(reader, page);
            pageN.put(PdfName.CROPBOX, leftBox);
            copy.addPage(importedPage);
            pageN.put(PdfName.CROPBOX, rightBox);
            copy.addPage(importedPage);
        }

        document.close();
    }
    finally
    {
        reader.close();
    }
}

(SplitIntoHalfPages.java)

This methods creates a copy of the source document containing each page twice, once with the CropBox limited to the left half page, once to the right one.

Beware: This method only splits the page content. If your source PDFs have annotations, you might want to also process them.