<s>
SWFTools	B-Operating_System
is	O
an	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
software	I-Application
tool	O
suite	O
for	O
creating	O
and	O
manipulating	O
SWF	O
files	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Distributed	O
under	O
the	O
terms	O
of	O
the	O
GPL-2.0-or-later	B-License
,	O
it	O
may	O
be	O
compiled	O
from	O
C	B-Language
source	O
,	O
to	O
run	O
under	O
Linux	O
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
,	O
and	O
Apple	O
OS	O
X	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
systems	O
,	O
the	O
pre-compiled	O
installer	O
also	O
installs	O
a	O
GUI	O
wrapper	O
for	O
the	O
suite	O
's	O
PDF	B-Application
to	O
SWF	O
conversion	O
tool	O
,	O
pdf2swf	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SWFTools	B-Operating_System
relies	O
upon	O
,	O
and	O
links	O
against	O
,	O
additional	O
third-party	O
libraries	O
for	O
some	O
of	O
its	O
functionality	O
,	O
e.g.	O
</s>
<s>
Xpdf	B-Protocol
,	O
PDFlib	O
,	O
freetype	B-Application
,	O
and	O
libjpeg	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
current	O
stable	O
SWFTools	B-Operating_System
suite	O
,	O
version	O
0.9.2	O
,	O
consists	O
of	O
the	O
following	O
components	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
xpdf	B-Protocol
PDF	B-Application
parser	O
from	O
::D	O
erek	O
B	O
.	O
Noonburg	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
SWFTools	B-Operating_System
suite	O
also	O
includes	O
a	O
Python	O
gFX	O
API	O
library	O
,	O
consisting	O
of	O
a	O
PDF	B-Application
parser	O
(	O
based	O
on	O
xpdf	B-Protocol
)	O
and	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
rendering	O
back-ends	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Using	O
the	O
API	O
,	O
one	O
can	O
extract	O
text	O
from	O
PDF	B-Application
pages	O
,	O
create	O
bitmaps	O
from	O
PDF	B-Application
,	O
and	O
convert	O
PDF	B-Application
files	I-Application
to	O
SWF	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
latter	O
functionality	O
is	O
similar	O
to	O
that	O
offered	O
by	O
the	O
standalone	O
pdf2swf	O
utility	O
detailed	O
above	O
,	O
but	O
more	O
powerful	O
:	O
the	O
API	O
can	O
create	O
individual	O
SWF	O
files	O
from	O
single	O
PDF	B-Application
pages	O
,	O
or	O
composite	O
pages	O
from	O
different	O
PDF	B-Application
files	I-Application
.	O
</s>
