Apache PDFBox: Difference between revisions

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| developer = [[Apache Software Foundation]]

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| latest release date = {{release date and age|20152016|0703|2321}}

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'''Apache PDFBox''' is an 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 4,000 commits (since the start as an Apache project) by 17 contributors representing more than 120,000 lines of code. PDFBox has a well established, mature codebase maintained by an average size development team with increasingstable [[Year Over Year|Y-O-Y]] commits. Using the [[COCOMO]] model, it took an estimated 3334 [[person-year]]s of effort. <ref>{{cite web|author=&nbsp;|url=https://www.openhub.net/p/pdfbox/ |title=The Apache PDFBox Open Source Project on Open Hub |publisher=openhub.net |date=20152016-0803-1721 |accessdate=20152016-0803-1721}}</ref>

==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.