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    13. Updating Barcode signatures with advanced options

    Updating Barcode signatures with advanced options

    GroupDocs.Signature provides BarcodeSignature class to manipulate barcode signatures location, size, textual content and encode type over update method of Signature class. This method returns UpdateResult object to analyze if signatures were successfully processed.

    Please be aware that update method modifies the same document that was passed to constructor of Signature class. The UpdateResult contains list of successfully updated signatures and ones that failed. The Barcode signature could be failed to update due to several reasons:

    • if signature object was initialized with constructor by incorrect signature identifier;
    • if signature object was not found;
    • there was an error occurred while updating signature in the document.

    Here are the steps to update Barcode signature in the document with GroupDocs.Signature:

    Here are the alternative steps to update Barcode signature in the document with GroupDocs.Signature. This approach is based on saved signatures Id after search or sign methods.

    • Create new instance of Signature class and pass source document path as a constructor parameter;
    • Instantiate one or several  BarcodeSignature objects with signature Id(s) passed to constructor;
    • Call Signature class object update method and pass one or several signatures to it;
    • Analyze UpdateResult result to check whether signatures were updated or not. 

    The following table describes changeable properties for Barcode signatures dependent on document type.

    Document Type / Signature PropertyLeftTopWidthHeightEncodeTypeTextIsSignature
    Image(error)(error)(error)(error)(error)(error)(error)
    Spreadsheet(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(error)(tick)
    Pdf(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(error)(tick)
    Presentation(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(error)(tick)
    Word Processing(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(error)(tick)

    This example shows how to update Barcode signature that was found using  search method.

    // initialize Signature instance
Signature signature = new Signature("sample.pdf");
BarcodeSearchOptions options = new BarcodeSearchOptions();
 
List<BarcodeSignature> signatures = signature.search(BarcodeSignature.class, options);
List<BaseSignature> bS = new ArrayList<BaseSignature>();
// adjust signature properties
for (BarcodeSignature temp : signatures)
{
    // apply some condition to adjust signature properties
    temp.setLeft(temp.getLeft() + 100);
    temp.setTop(temp.getTop() + 100);
    temp.setSignature(true);
    bS.add(temp);
}
// update all found signatures
UpdateResult updateResult = signature.update("sample-updated.pdf", bS);
if (updateResult.getSucceeded().size() == signatures.size())
{
    System.out.print("\nAll signatures were successfully updated!");
}
else
{
    System.out.print("Successfully updated signatures : "+updateResult.getSucceeded().size());
    System.out.print("Not updated signatures : "+updateResult.getFailed().size());
}
System.out.print("List of updated signatures:");
for (BaseSignature temp : updateResult.getSucceeded())
{
    System.out.print("Signature# Id:"+temp.getSignatureId()+", Location: "+temp.getLeft()+"x"+temp.getTop()+". Size: "+temp.getWidth()+"x"+temp.getHeight());
}

    Update Barcode signature in document by known signature Identifier

    This example shows how to update Barcode signature in the document by known signature Id (that was obtained by  search or sign method previously).

    // initialize Signature instance
Signature signature = new Signature("signed.xlsx");           
// read from some data source signature Id value
String[] signatureIdList = new String[]
        {
                "1dd21cf3-b904-4da9-9413-1ff1dab51974",
                "1a5fbc08-4b96-43d9-b650-578b16fbb877"
        };
// create list of Barcode Signature by known SignatureId
List<BaseSignature> signatures = new ArrayList<BaseSignature>();
for (String item : signatureIdList)
{
    BarcodeSignature temp = new BarcodeSignature(item);
    temp.setWidth(150);
    temp.setHeight(150);
    temp.setLeft(200);
    temp.setTop(200);
    signatures.add(temp);
}
// update all found signatures
UpdateResult updateResult = signature.update("signed.xlsx",signatures);
if (updateResult.getSucceeded().size() == signatures.size())
{
    System.out.print("\nAll signatures were successfully updated!");
}
else
{
    System.out.print("Successfully updated signatures : "+updateResult.getSucceeded().size());
    System.out.print("Not updated signatures : "+updateResult.getFailed().size());
}
System.out.print("List of updated signatures:");
for (BaseSignature temp : updateResult.getSucceeded())
{
    System.out.print("Signature# Id:"+temp.getSignatureId()+", Location: "+temp.getLeft()+"x"+temp.getTop()+". Size: "+temp.getWidth()+"x"+temp.getHeight());
}

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    GitHub Examples 

    You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:

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