Revision as of 12:40, 31 October 2014

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

Mailing List(s)

See here for more information.

Release Feed

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Issues Feed

2026-04-30 16:04:33: [PDFBOX-6201] Enhance XRef Brute Force to keep valid entries; <style type="text/css"> .tableBorder, .grid { background-color: #fff; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; } .tableBorder td, .grid td { vertical-align: top; padding:...; by Stefan Ziegler
2026-04-27 06:48:16: [PDFBOX-6200] Recursive processing of COSUpdateState#setOriginDocumentState leads to StackOverflow exception; <style type="text/css"> .tableBorder, .grid { background-color: #fff; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; } .tableBorder td, .grid td { vertical-align: top; padding:...; by Aleksandr Beliakov
2026-04-29 13:17:11: [PDFBOX-6199] Template 1 handling with TPGRON not supported; <style type="text/css"> .tableBorder, .grid { background-color: #fff; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; } .tableBorder td, .grid td { vertical-align: top; padding:...; by Maruan Sahyoun
2026-04-24 06:09:09: [PDFBOX-6198] Disable deployment of submodule pdfbox-examples; <style type="text/css"> .tableBorder, .grid { background-color: #fff; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; } .tableBorder td, .grid td { vertical-align: top; padding:...; by Andreas Lehmkühler
2026-04-22 07:19:56: [PDFBOX-6197] TTFSubsetter: add support for custom cmap subtables (addCustomCmapEntry / addCustomCmap); <style type="text/css"> .tableBorder, .grid { background-color: #fff; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; } .tableBorder td, .grid td { vertical-align: top; padding:...; by Stefan Ziegler

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