Apache PDFBox

PDFBox
Developer(s) Apache Software Foundation
Stable release
2.0.6 / May 15, 2017 (2017-05-15)
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Portable Document Format (PDF)
License Apache License 2.0
Website https://pdfbox.apache.org

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 decreasing Y-O-Y commits. Using the COCOMO model, it took an estimated 36 person-years of effort. [1]

Structure

Apache PDFBox has these components:

History

PDFBox was started in 2002 in SourceForge by Ben Litchfield who wanted to be able to extract text of PDF files for Lucene.[2] It became an Apache Incubator project in 2008, and an Apache top level project in 2009. [3]

Preflight was originally named PaDaF and developed by Atos worldline, and donated to the project in 2011.[4]

In February 2015, Apache PDFBox was named an Open Source Partner Organization of the PDF Association. [5]

See also

References

  1. ↑   (2017-03-18). "The Apache PDFBox Open Source Project on Open Hub". openhub.net. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  2. ↑ Apache PDFBox and FontBox 1.0.0 released, The H Open, 16 February 2010
  3. ↑ PDFBox Project Incubation Status
  4. ↑ PaDaF Preflight Codebase Intellectual Property (IP) Clearance Status
  5. ↑ Apache™ PDFBox™ named an Open Source Partner Organization of the PDF Association, February 3, 2015
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