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Apache PDFBox

Created by Paul Wheatley on Aug 30, 2011 · last edited by Andrew Jackson · on Nov 07, 2013 (view history) · 10 versions

Summary

Purpose JAVA PDF library for creation, manipulation and content extraction of PDF documents
Homepage http://pdfbox.apache.org/
License Apache License v2.0
Debian Package  

Description

Quoted from the website "Apache PDFBox™ is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. Apache PDFBox also includes several command line utilities."

Recent versions also include a PDF/A parser/validator module. Executable JARs can be downloaded here:

http://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html

User Experiences

Applied in an AQuA Mashup to address the preservation Issue: "Detect, extract and analyse embedded objects in PDFs".

Successfully applied by the British Library for characterising PDFs.

Developed into a PDF long term risk detector at a SPRUCE hackathon.

News Feeds

Mailing Lists

Apache PDFBox provides different mailing lists to get in contact with the community.

http://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html

Release Feed

Apache PDFBox
(The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents.)
Release of Apache PDFBox, version 1.8.6
Apache PDFBox

Activity Feed

Apache PDFBox uses JIRA to track the development process.

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<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=jahewson" class="activity-item-user activity-item-author">John Hewson</a> resolved <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2256"><span class='resolved-link'>PDFBOX-2256</span> - Text size renders wrong</a> as 'Fixed'
<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=jahewson" class="activity-item-user activity-item-author">John Hewson</a> resolved <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2279"><span class='resolved-link'>PDFBOX-2279</span> - Text with gradient not shown</a> as 'Fixed'
<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=jahewson" class="activity-item-user activity-item-author">John Hewson</a> resolved <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2280"><span class='resolved-link'>PDFBOX-2280</span> - Text not italic</a> as 'Fixed'
<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=jahewson" class="activity-item-user activity-item-author">John Hewson</a> resolved <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2294"><span class='resolved-link'>PDFBOX-2294</span> - Improve vertical text drawing as an experiment</a> as 'Fixed'
<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=jahewson" class="activity-item-user activity-item-author">John Hewson</a> resolved <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2037"><span class='resolved-link'>PDFBOX-2037</span> - Glyph in type1CFont not rendered</a> as 'Fixed'
<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=jahewson" class="activity-item-user activity-item-author">John Hewson</a> resolved <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2220"><span class='resolved-link'>PDFBOX-2220</span> - [PATCH] Differences array without BaseEncoding (Type1C)</a> as 'Fixed'
<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=jahewson" class="activity-item-user activity-item-author">John Hewson</a> resolved <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2262"><span class='resolved-link'>PDFBOX-2262</span> - Remove usage of AWT fonts</a> as 'Fixed'