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Revision as of 21:01, 15 May 2017

PDFBox
Developer(s)Apache Software Foundation
Stable release
2.0.6 / May 15, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-05-15)
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.

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 decreasing Y-O-Y commits. Using the COCOMO model, it took an estimated 36 person-years of effort. [1]

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 SourceForge by Ben Litchfield who wanted to be able to extract text of PDF files for Lucene.[2] It became an Apache Incubator project in 2008, and an Apache top level project in 2009. [3]

Preflight was originally named PaDaF and developed by Atos worldline, and donated to the project in 2011.[4]

In February 2015, Apache PDFBox was named an Open Source Partner Organization of the PDF Association. [5]

See also

References

  1. ^   (2017-03-18). "The Apache PDFBox Open Source Project on Open Hub". openhub.net. Retrieved 2017-03-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  2. ^ Apache PDFBox and FontBox 1.0.0 released, The H Open, 16 February 2010
  3. ^ PDFBox Project Incubation Status
  4. ^ PaDaF Preflight Codebase Intellectual Property (IP) Clearance Status
  5. ^ Apache™ PDFBox™ named an Open Source Partner Organization of the PDF Association, February 3, 2015