The Tutorials for PDFBox provide a quick start into some of the most common uses cases for PDFBox as part of a PDF application. In addition the Cookbook provides a wide range of samples including sample code.
| Tutorial | Description |
|---|---|
| Bookmarks | PDF Bookmarks allow for a quick navigation within documents similar to a Table of Contents. The Tutorial covers how to read bookmarks as well as how to generate them. |
| File References | A PDF file can contain references to external files as well as files embedded in the PDF itself. The Tutorial covers how handle such references as well as how to embed a file in a PDF document. |
| Highlighting | PDF allows for text to be highlighted. This can be useful for example to highlight results of a search. There are different ways to approach this covered in the tutorial. |
| Metadata | PDF documents can have metadata associated with the document or certain objects within the document. As an example metadata can be used to store the author of a document as well as copyright information for an image embedded in the document. The Tutorial covers how to read and generate such metadata. |
| Text Extraction | One of the main features of PDFBox is its ability to quickly and accurately extract text from a variety of PDF documents. The tutorial covers different approaches to handle that task. |