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| − | |purpose=JAVA PDF library for creation, manipulation and content extraction of PDF documents | + | |purpose=JAVA PDF library for creation, manipulation, validation and content extraction of PDF documents |
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|homepage=http://pdfbox.apache.org/ | |homepage=http://pdfbox.apache.org/ | ||
|license=Apache License v2.0 | |license=Apache License v2.0 | ||
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| + | |function=Metadata Extraction, Repair, File Format Migration, Validation, Encryption Detection | ||
| + | |content=Document | ||
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| + | |ohloh_id=pdfbox | ||
| + | |mailing_lists=http://pdfbox.apache.org/mailinglists.html | ||
| + | |releases_rss=http://projects.apache.org/feeds/rss/pdfbox.xml | ||
| + | |issues_rss=https://issues.apache.org/jira/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-rss/temp/SearchRequest.xml?jqlQuery=project+%3D+PDFBOX&tempMax=100 | ||
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= Description = | = 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). | |
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= User Experiences = | = User Experiences = | ||
| − | *[http://openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/ | + | *Identification of PDF preservation risks using the Preflight component of PDFBox in three parts: [http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2012-12-19-identification-pdf-preservation-risks-apache-preflight-first-impression part 1], [http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2013-07-25-identification-pdf-preservation-risks-sequel part 2] and [http://openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2014-01-27-identification-pdf-preservation-risks-analysis-govdocs-selected-corpus part 3]. |
* 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]. | * 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. | * Successfully applied by the British Library for characterising PDFs. | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:39, 20 April 2021
Mailing List(s)
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Release Feed
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Issues Feed
- 2026-03-13 13:53:15
- [PDFBOX-6176] reported number of objects (7412) is not one plus the highest object number (7410)
- <style type="text/css"> .tableBorder, .grid { background-color: #fff; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; } .tableBorder td, .grid td { vertical-align: top; padding:...
- by Daniel Persson
- 2026-03-15 10:52:41
- [PDFBOX-6175] OutOfMemoryError parsing large CID fonts: soft-reference font cache cleared + W2 range expansion leads to OOM
- <style type="text/css"> .tableBorder, .grid { background-color: #fff; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; } .tableBorder td, .grid td { vertical-align: top; padding:...
- by Kiyotsuki Suzuki
- 2026-03-15 18:21:46
- [PDFBOX-6174] Run regression tests for 2.0.36
- <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
- 2026-03-15 18:21:46
- [PDFBOX-6173] NullPointerException while merging PDFs with output intents
- <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
- 2026-03-09 21:23:41
- [PDFBOX-6172] PDF displays garbled characters in Adobe Reader but renders correctly in web browsers
- <style type="text/css"> .tableBorder, .grid { background-color: #fff; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; } .tableBorder td, .grid td { vertical-align: top; padding:...
- by bai yuan
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 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.