Editing Apache PDFBox

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|homepage=http://pdfbox.apache.org/
|license=Apache License v2.0
|platforms=Java
|function=Metadata Extraction, Repair, File Format Migration, Validation, Encryption Detection
|content=Document
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= Description =
According to the PDFBox website: "The Apache PDFBox™ library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. Apache PDFBox also includes several command line utilities".

Although a range of these facilities may prove useful for preservation purposes, such as PDF debugging or extracting text, it is the [https://pdfbox.apache.org/cookbook/pdfavalidation.html Preflight component] that supports the validation of a PDF against the PDF/A-1 or PDF/A-1b standards that has attracted considerable interest from preservation practitioners (see below).

= User Experiences =
*[http://openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2014-01-27-identification-pdf-preservation-risks-analysis-govdocs-selected-corpus Identification of PDF preservation risks: analysis of Govdocs selected corpus] using the Preflight component of PDFBox. And see [http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2013-07-25-identification-pdf-preservation-risks-sequel the sequel]
* Applied in an AQuA Mashup to address the preservation Issue: [http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/AQuA/Detect%2C+extract+and+analyse+embedded+objects+in+PDFs Detect, extract and analyse embedded objects in PDFs].
* Successfully applied by the British Library for characterising PDFs.
* [http://openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2013-03-15-pdf-eh-another-hackathon-tale Developed into a PDF long term risk detector at a SPRUCE hackathon].

= Development Activity =