PDF Creation

The Docutain SDK for Xamarin comes with the ability to create searchable and non-searchable PDF documents either from a scanned document with Docutain's Scanner SDK or imported file.

Initialization

Initialize the Docutain Xamarin SDK as described here.

Create a PDF

Xamarin.Forms

using Docutain.SDK.Xamarin.Forms;

// ...
// scan or import file
// ...

var destinationPath = FileSystem.CacheDirectory + "/TestPDF.pdf";
var pdfFile = Document.WritePDF(destinationPath);
if(pdfFile != null)
{
    //do something with the generated pdf file
} 
else
{
    //error occured
    var error = DocutainSDK.LastError;
}

tip

You can specify the PDF page format by providing the appropriate value

var pdfFile = Document.WritePDF(destinationPath, true, PDFPageFormat.A4);

Xamarin.Android

using Docutain.SDK.Xamarin.Android;

// ...
// scan or import file
// ...

var destinationPath = FileSystem.CacheDirectory + "/TestPDF.pdf";
var pdfFile = Document.WritePDF(new Java.IO.File(destinationPath));
if(pdfFile != null)
{
    //do something with the generated pdf file
} 
else
{
    //error occured
    var error = DocutainSDK.LastError;
}

tip

You can specify the PDF page format by providing the appropriate value

var pdfFile = Document.WritePDF(new Java.IO.File(destinationPath), true, PDFPageFormat.A4);

Xamarin.iOS

using Docutain.SDK.Xamarin.iOS;

// ...
// scan or import file
// ...

var paths = NSFileManager.DefaultManager.GetUrls(NSSearchPathDirectory.DocumentDirectory, NSSearchPathDomain.User);
var destinationPath = paths[0];
var pdfFile = Document.WritePDF(destinationPath, "TestPDF");
if(pdfFile != null)
{
    //do something with the generated pdf file
} 
else
{
    //error occured
    var error = DocutainSDK.LastError;
}

tip

You can specify the PDF page format by providing the appropriate value

var pdfFile = Document.WritePDF(destinationPath, "TestPDF", true, PDFPageFormat.A4);