Question: We have a process where we scan documents to SharePoint. I'm looking for a way to let my staff view the document (PDF) and metadata at the same time, edit the metadata, then go to the next document when they click save. Any ideas? Is there any solution on VeryPDF?
Answer: According to your needs, maybe you can have a free trial of this software:VeryPDF PDF Metadata Manager Cloud API, by which you can view PDF and edit metadata together. By this software, you can extract or insert Title, Author, Subject, Keywords, Creator, Producer, Created Date, Modified Date from/to PDF files. And when output PDF file, there will be URL. By the output URL, you can download PDF and view PDF easily. Please check more information of this software on homepage, in the following part, let us check how to use this software.
Step 1. Register an account
- VeryPDF PDF Metadata Manager Cloud API belongs to VeryPDF cloud application, it is a kind cloud base service. If you need to use this software without watermark, you need to register an account and get an API code.
- When register an account, please go to registration page. When you finish payment, the API key code will be sent to your email box at once.
Step 2. View PDF and edit metadata.
- When you need to view PDF metadata, please refer to the following URL.
http://online.verypdf.com/api/?apikey=XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX&app=getpagecount&infile=http://online.verypdf.com/examples/cloud-api/verypdf.pdf
When you view PDF basic information, please copy the above URL in above browser and then all the basic information will be shown in the website. Please change the API key code to the real API code in your email box. Change the URL of example input PDF to the real PDF which need to view and change metadata. - When you need to edit metadata,please refer to the following URL:
http://online.verypdf.com/api/?apikey=XXXX&app=pdftools&infile=http://online.verypdf.com/examples/cloud-api/verypdf.pdf&outfile=verypdf.pdf&-setpdftitle=title&-setpdfsubject=subject&-setpdfauthor=author&-setpdfkeywords=keywords&-setpdfcreator=creator&-setpdfproducer=producer
When you need to edit metadata, please refer to the above URL. Please do as the same above URL, change API code and example PDF URL. And then edit metadata like title, subject, author, keyword, creator, and producer. Please pay more attention to the parameters used in above URL. Please connect each parameters by symbol &.
By this method and this cloud application, you can do view PDF metadata and edit metadata together. And VeryPDF cloud applications are quite cheap, you just need to spend less 20 dollars each month. By this application, you do not need to buy any desktop application. During the using, if you have any question, please contact us as soon as possible.