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PDFBox

Created by Paul Wheatley on Aug 30, 2011 · last edited by Johan van der Knijff · on Oct 15, 2012 (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. An executable JAR can be downloaded here:

https://builds.apache.org/job/PDFBox-trunk/org.apache.pdfbox$preflight/

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.

News Feeds

Release Feed

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Activity Feed

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