How to add Content to a PDF using iText PdfStamper

Question

I'm developing a System in which I have to add some images to an existing PDF Document.

This works great with iText 5.1.3, but for some reason in a PDF that contains a scanned image it won't add any of the images.

Here's the link to the PDF Document that can't be modified with PdfStamper

and here's the code

  PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("Registro celular_OR.pdf");
  PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileOutputStream("DocStamped.pdf"));
  Image img = Image.getInstance("someImage.jpg");
  img.setAbsolutePosition(0, 0);
  img.scaleAbsolute(50f, 50f);
  PdfContentByte over = null;

  int total = reader.getNumberOfPages() + 1;
  for(int i = 1; i < total; i++) {
    System.out.println("Procesando Pagina: " + i);
    over = stamper.getOverContent(i);
    over.addImage(img);

    over.beginText();
    BaseFont bf_times = BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.TIMES_ROMAN, "Cp1252", false);
    over.setFontAndSize(bf_times, 8);
    over.showTextAligned(PdfContentByte.ALIGN_CENTER, "TEXTO PRUEBA", 50, 50, 0);
    over.endText();
  }
  stamper.close();

Answer 1

A PDF page does not need to have its lower left corner at (0, 0). It can be anywhere in the coordinate system. So an A4 page can be (0, 0, 595, 842), but it might as well be (1000, 2000, 1595, 2842).

You are positioning the image at (0, 0):

img.setAbsolutePosition(0, 0);

But the page of this document is defined as (0, 15366, 469, 15728). The image is actually added to the output document, but it's outside the visible area of the page.

You have to get the coordinates of the page to position the image. Inside the loop, do this:

img.setAbsolutePosition(reader.getPageSize(i).getLeft(), reader.getPageSize(i).getBottom());