Apache PDFBox
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| Developer(s) | Apache Software Foundation |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 2.0.6
/ May 15, 2017 |
| 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 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
- ^ (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) - ^ Apache PDFBox and FontBox 1.0.0 released, The H Open, 16 February 2010
- ^ PDFBox Project Incubation Status
- ^ PaDaF Preflight Codebase Intellectual Property (IP) Clearance Status
- ^ Apache™ PDFBox™ named an Open Source Partner Organization of the PDF Association, February 3, 2015
