Apache PDFBox is an open source pure-

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library that can be used to create, render, print, split, merge, alter, verify and extract text and meta-data of PDF files.

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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 year-over-year commits. Using the

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model, it took an estimated 46 person-years of effort.

Structure

Apache PDFBox has these components: * PDFBox: the main part * FontBox: handles font information * XmpBox: handles XMP metadata * Preflight (optional): checks PDF files for PDF/A-1b conformity.

History

PDFBox was started in 2002 in

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by Ben Litchfield who wanted to be able to extract text of PDF files for

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. It became an

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project in 2008, and an Apache top level project in 2009. Preflight was originally named PaDaF and developed by Atos worldline, and donated to the project in 2011. In February 2015, Apache PDFBox was named an Open Source Partner Organization of the

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.Apache™ PDFBox™ named an Open Source Partner Organization of the PDF Association
February 3, 2015

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Apache PDFBox Project
{{Apache Software Foundation PDFBox Free PDF software Free software programmed in Java (programming language) Java (programming language) libraries Java platform Software using the Apache license

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