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# PDF extraction library for Android

Extract content and data from PDF documents with Nutrient Android SDK. It offers developers a way to quickly parse and read PDF content, retrieve forms or annotations, extract digital signatures, and more.

## Key capabilities

- **Parse and read** — Text, forms, signatures, annotations, and more

- **Extract text** — From each page for processing

- **Form fields** — Extract form info and values

- **Annotations** — Retrieve all annotations as JSON or XFDF

- **Digital signatures** — Get all validation info present in the PDF

- **Extendable** — Add a search UI, annotation, forms, and more

## Guides for extraction

**[Parse content](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/android/extraction/parse-content.md)**

How to parse page text, glyphs, text blocks, words, and images

**[Text extraction](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/android/features/text-extraction.md)**

How to extract the full text content from a PDF page or document

**[Page extraction](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/android/extraction/page-extraction.md)**

How to extract PDF pages and insert them into a new document

**[Extract selected text](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/android/extraction/selected-text.md)**

How to retrieve selected text and text located within a selection range

**[Text position](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/android/extraction/text-position.md)**

How to find the location of a given text element at different granularities

**[Metadata](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/android/extraction/metadata.md)**

How to access a PDF’s information dictionary and XMP stream

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## Related pages

- [Extract metadata from PDFs on Android](/guides/android/extraction/metadata.md)
- [Extract pages from PDFs on Android](/guides/android/extraction/page-extraction.md)
- [Extract selected text from PDFs on Android](/guides/android/extraction/selected-text.md)
- [Effortlessly parse PDF content on Android](/guides/android/extraction/parse-content.md)
- [Easily extract text from PDFs on Android](/guides/android/features/text-extraction.md)
- [Extract the text position from PDFs on Android](/guides/android/extraction/text-position.md)