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.
Key Features
- Extract text – extract Unicode text from PDF files.
- Split and merge – split a single PDF into many files or merge multiple PDF files.
- Fill Forms – extract data from PDF forms or fill a PDF form.
- Preflight – validate PDF files against the PDF/A-1b standard.
- Print – print a PDF file using the standard Java printing API.
- Save as image – save PDFs as image files, such as PNG or JPEG.
- Create PDFs – create a PDF from scratch, with embedded fonts and images.
- Signing – digitally sign PDF files.
Website: pdfbox.apache.org
Support:
Developer: Apache Software Foundation
License: Apache License v2.0
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