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/wrt673fe01ee34836_49921387

Mailing List(s)

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Release Feed

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Issues Feed

2024-11-21 15:13:36: [PDFBOX-5906] IOException when reading isolated "+"; <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
2024-11-20 18:21:52: [PDFBOX-5905] Many ZapfDingbats symbols do not appear when page is rendered.; <style type="text/css"> .tableBorder, .grid { background-color: #fff; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; } .tableBorder td, .grid td { vertical-align: top; padding:...; by Robert Amidon
2024-11-20 01:25:34: [PDFBOX-5904] Fontbox OpenTypeFont should use isPostScript() internally, not isPostScript; <style type="text/css"> .tableBorder, .grid { background-color: #fff; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; } .tableBorder td, .grid td { vertical-align: top; padding:...; by Jxtps
2024-11-20 18:39:38: [PDFBOX-5903] Java fatal error on C2 compilation step; <style type="text/css"> .tableBorder, .grid { background-color: #fff; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; } .tableBorder td, .grid td { vertical-align: top; padding:...; by Evgeny
2024-11-21 02:20:17: [PDFBOX-5902] The CPU usage of a PDF file with a size of 85.6 MB is abnormal; <style type="text/css"> .tableBorder, .grid { background-color: #fff; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; } .tableBorder td, .grid td { vertical-align: top; padding:...; by ltzzZ

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