Apache PDFBox - Java PDF Library

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. Apache PDFBox is published under the Apache License v2.0.

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Features

  • PDF to text extraction
  • Merge PDF Documents
  • PDF Document Encryption/Decryption
  • Lucene Search Engine Integration
  • Fill in form data FDF and XFDF
  • Create a PDF from a text file
  • Create images from PDF pages
  • Print a PDF
  • PDF/A validation