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Description

	JAVA PDF library for creation, manipulation, validation and content extraction of PDF documents
Homepage:	http://pdfbox.apache.org/
License:	Apache License v2.0
Platforms:	Java

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 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

Identification of PDF preservation risks using the Preflight component of PDFBox in three parts: part 1, part 2 and part 3.
Applied in an AQuA Mashup to address the preservation Issue: Detect, extract and analyse embedded objects in PDFs.
Successfully applied by the British Library for characterising PDFs.
Developed into a PDF long term risk detector at a SPRUCE hackathon.

Development Activity

Error in widget Ohloh Project: unable to write file /var/www/html/extensions/Widgets/compiled_templates/wrt666e548bad2858_08923247

Mailing List(s)

See here for more information.

Release Feed

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Issues Feed

2024-06-15 09:26:26: [PDFBOX-5841] First split result document misses metadata after split; <style type="text/css"> .tableBorder, .grid { background-color: #fff; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; } .tableBorder td, .grid td { vertical-align: top; padding:...; by Tilman Hausherr
2024-06-15 09:24:55: [PDFBOX-5840] When splitting, keep named page destinations that are part of target document(s); <style type="text/css"> .tableBorder, .grid { background-color: #fff; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; } .tableBorder td, .grid td { vertical-align: top; padding:...; by Tilman Hausherr
2024-06-14 13:47:51: [PDFBOX-5839] ClassCastException: org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSNull cannot be cast to org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDictionary; <style type="text/css"> .tableBorder, .grid { background-color: #fff; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; } .tableBorder td, .grid td { vertical-align: top; padding:...; by liu
2024-06-14 05:44:10: [PDFBOX-5838] Text extraction garbled in this file, was OK in 3.0.2 / 2.0.31; <style type="text/css"> .tableBorder, .grid { background-color: #fff; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; } .tableBorder td, .grid td { vertical-align: top; padding:...; by Tilman Hausherr
2024-06-13 10:24:14: [PDFBOX-5837] Add center constructor parameter to PDFPageable and to pdfbox-app; <style type="text/css"> .tableBorder, .grid { background-color: #fff; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; } .tableBorder td, .grid td { vertical-align: top; padding:...; by Tilman Hausherr

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