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*[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]
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*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.

Revision as of 23:09, 3 July 2014

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


Description

Quoted from the website Apache PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library 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.”

Recent versions also include a PDF/A parser/validator module. Executable JARs can be downloaded here:

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User Experiences

Development Activity

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Mailing Lists

Apache PDFBox provides different mailing lists to get in contact with the community.

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Release Feed

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Activity Feed

Apache PDFBox uses JIRA to track the development process.