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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.
'''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.


[[Ohloh]] reports almost 2,000 commits (since the start as an Apache project) by 17 contributors representing more than 100,000 lines of code. PDFBox has a well established, mature codebase maintained by a large development team with increasing Y-O-Y comments. <ref>{{cite web|author=&nbsp; |url=https://www.ohloh.net/p/pdfbox/ |title=The Apache PDFBox Open Source Project on Ohloh |publisher=Ohloh.net |date=2014-06-25 |accessdate=2014-06-25}}</ref>
[[Ohloh]] reports over 2,000 commits (since the start as an Apache project) by 17 contributors representing more than 100,000 lines of code. PDFBox has a well established, mature codebase maintained by an average size development team with increasing Y-O-Y commits. <ref>{{cite web|author=&nbsp;|url=https://www.ohloh.net/p/pdfbox/ |title=The Apache PDFBox Open Source Project on Ohloh |publisher=Ohloh.net |date=2014-06-25 |accessdate=2014-06-25}}</ref>


Using the [[COCOMO]] model, it took an estimated 30 [[person-year]]s of effort.<ref>{{cite web|author=&nbsp; |url=https://www.ohloh.net/p/pdfbox/estimated_cost |title=Ohloh Estimated development cost |publisher=Ohloh.net |date=2014-06-25 |accessdate=2014-06-25}}</ref>
Using the [[COCOMO]] model, it took an estimated 30 [[person-year]]s of effort.<ref>{{cite web|author=&nbsp; |url=https://www.ohloh.net/p/pdfbox/estimated_cost |title=Ohloh Estimated development cost |publisher=Ohloh.net |date=2014-06-25 |accessdate=2014-06-25}}</ref>

Revision as of 19:26, 16 December 2014

PDFBox
Developer(s)Apache Software Foundation
Stable release
1.8.8 / December 13, 2014; 9 years ago (2014-12-13)
Repository
Written inJava
Operating systemCross-platform
TypePortable Document Format (PDF)
LicenseApache License 2.0
Websitehttps://pdfbox.apache.org

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

Ohloh reports over 2,000 commits (since the start as an Apache project) by 17 contributors representing more than 100,000 lines of code. PDFBox has a well established, mature codebase maintained by an average size development team with increasing Y-O-Y commits. [1]

Using the COCOMO model, it took an estimated 30 person-years of effort.[2]

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.[3] It became an Apache Incubator project in 2008, and an Apache top level project in 2009. [4]

Preflight was originally named PaDaF and developed by Atos worldline, and donated to the project in 2011.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^   (2014-06-25). "The Apache PDFBox Open Source Project on Ohloh". Ohloh.net. Retrieved 2014-06-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  2. ^   (2014-06-25). "Ohloh Estimated development cost". Ohloh.net. Retrieved 2014-06-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  3. ^ Apache PDFBox and FontBox 1.0.0 released, The H Open, 16 February 2010
  4. ^ PDFBox Project Incubation Status
  5. ^ PaDaF Preflight Codebase Intellectual Property (IP) Clearance Status