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PDFBox was started in 2002 in [[SourceForge]] by Ben Litchfield who wanted to be able to extract text of PDF files for [[Lucene]]. 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> |
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> |
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Preflight was originally 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> |
Preflight was originally 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> |
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| Developer(s) | Apache Software Foundation |
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| Stable release | 1.8.6
/ June 22, 2014 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Portable Document Format (PDF) |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | https://pdfbox.apache.org |
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
Apache PDFBox has these components:
- PDFBox: the main part
- FontBox: handles font information
- JempBox: handles XMP metadata
- Preflight (optional): checks PDF files for PDF/A conformity.
History
PDFBox was started in 2002 in SourceForge by Ben Litchfield who wanted to be able to extract text of PDF files for Lucene.[1] It became an Apache Incubator project in 2008, and an Apache top level project in 2009. [2]
Preflight was originally named PaDaF and developed by Atos worldline, and donated to the project in 2011.[3]
