QPDF on IBM i

Last Updated on 13 June 2021 by Roberto De Pedrini Some time ago a customer alerted me that he needed to remove protection from PDF files incoming from his sales network. He told me that to overcome the problem he had to remove the protection from the PDF manually using an open source tool called QPDF running on a Windows system but that this was not the best solution since his application was resident on an IBM i system. He then asked me if I could check the possibility of installing the tool on the IBM i system to automate the task by including it in the nightly batch jobs. I immediately tried to solve the problem by writing a small Java program. …