Apache PDFBox is an open source pure-Java library that can be used to create, render, print, split, merge, alter, verify and extract text and meta-data of PDF files.
Open Hub reports over 11,000 commits (since the start as an Apache project) by 18 contributors representing more than 140,000 lines of code. PDFBox has a well established, mature codebase maintained by an average size development team with increasing year-over-year commits. Using the COCOMO model, it took an estimated 46 person-years of effort.[2]
Structure[edit]
Apache PDFBox has these components:
- PDFBox: the main part
- FontBox: handles font information
- XmpBox: handles XMP metadata
- Preflight (optional): checks PDF files for PDF/A-1b conformity.
History[edit]
PDFBox was started in 2002 in SourceForge by Ben Litchfield who wanted to be able to extract text of PDF files for Lucene.[3] It became an Apache Incubator project in 2008, and an Apache top level project in 2009.[4]
Preflight was originally named PaDaF and developed by Atos worldline, and donated to the project in 2011.[5]
In February 2015, Apache PDFBox was named an Open Source Partner Organization of the PDF Association.[6]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Apache PDFBox - Blog". pdfbox.apache.org. Apache Software Foundation. Retrieved 2022-09-27.
- ^ "The Apache PDFBox Open Source Project on Open Hub". openhub.net. 2017-03-18. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
- ^ Apache PDFBox and FontBox 1.0.0 released, The H Open, 16 February 2010
- ^ PDFBox Project Incubation Status
- ^ PaDaF Preflight Codebase Intellectual Property (IP) Clearance Status
- ^ Apache™ PDFBox™ named an Open Source Partner Organization of the PDF Association, February 3, 2015
