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{{Short description|Open-source PDF library}}

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{{Infobox software

| name = PDFBox

| logo = Apache PDFBox logo.svg

| collapsible = yes

| developer = [[Apache Software Foundation]]

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| website | url = https://pdfbox.apache.org/blog/

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| programming language = [[Java (programming language)|Java]]

| publisher = Apache Software Foundation

| genre = [[PDF|Portable Document Format (PDF)]]

| access-date = 2024-10-30

| license = [[Apache License]] 2.0

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| website = https://pdfbox.apache.org

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'''Apache PDFBox''' is aan open source pure-[[Java (software platform)|Java]] library that can be used to create, render, print, split, merge, alter, verify and extract text and meta-data of [[PDF]] files.

[[Open Hub]] reports over 11,000 commits (since the start as an Apache project) by 18 contributors representing more than 140,000 lines of code. PDFBox has a well established, mature codebase maintained by an average size development team with increasing [[wikt:year-over-year|year-over-year]] commits. Using the [[COCOMO]] model, it took an estimated 46 [[person-year]]s of effort.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.openhub.net/p/pdfbox/ |title=The Apache PDFBox Open Source Project on Open Hub |publisher=openhub.net |date=2017-03-18 |access-date=2017-03-18}}</ref>

Apache PDFBox is a pure-[[Java]] library that can be used to create, render, print, split, merge, alter, verify and extract text and meta-data of [[PDF]] files.

==Structure==

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* PDFBox: the main part

* FontBox: handles font information

* JempBoxXmpBox: handles [[Extensible Metadata Platform|XMP metadata]]

* Preflight (optional): checks PDF files for [[PDF/A]]-1b conformity.

* Preflight (optional): checks PDF files for PDF/A conformity. This part was orginally named PaDaF and developed by [[Atos|Atos worldline]], and donated to the project in 2011.<ref>[https://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/pdfbox-padaf.html PaDaF Preflight Codebase Intellectual Property (IP) Clearance Status]</ref>

==History==

PDFBox was started in 2002 in [[SourceForge]] by Ben Litchfield who wanted to be able to extract text of PDF files for [[Lucene]].<ref>[http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Apache-PDFBox-and-FontBox-1-0-0-released-932436.html Apache PDFBox and FontBox 1.0.0 released], The H Open, 16 February 2010</ref> It became an [[Apache Incubator]] project in 2008, and an Apache top level project in 2009. <ref>[https://incubator.apache.org/projects/pdfbox.html PDFBox Project Incubation Status]</ref>

* Preflight (optional): checks PDF files for PDF/A conformity. This part was orginallyoriginally named PaDaF and developed by [[Atos|Atos worldline]], and donated to the project in 2011.<ref>[https://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/pdfbox-padaf.html PaDaF Preflight Codebase Intellectual Property (IP) Clearance Status]</ref>

In February 2015, Apache PDFBox was named an Open Source Partner Organization of the [[PDF Association]].<ref>[https://www.pdfa.org/new/apache%c2%99-pdfbox%c2%99-named-an-open-source-partner-organization-of-the-pdf-association/ Apache™ PDFBox™ named an Open Source Partner Organization of the PDF Association], February 3, 2015</ref>

== See also ==

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==External links==

*[https://pdfbox.apache.org Apache PDFBox Project]

*[https://people.apache.org/~lehmi/apachecon/ApacheConPDFBox.pdf Presentation at ApacheCon 2010 by Andreas Lehmkühler, PMC chair]

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