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Apache PDFBox

Apache PDFBox is an open-source Java library developed to process on PDF documents. It supports the functions of creating new PDF files, editing existing documents and extracting content. The library also offers command line tools for various operations.

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Apache PDFBox

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apache · PDF & Document Processing

STARS3.1K
FORKS971
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CONTRIBUTORS20
VERSION3.0.8
UPDATEDtoday
pdfjavadocument-processingApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Adobe Acrobat, ABBYY FineReader, Foxit PDF Editor

What can it do?
  • You can programmatically create new PDF documents in your Java applications.
  • You can edit documents by making changes to existing PDF files.
  • You can extract text or content by parsing data within PDF documents.
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Show HN: Parsing horse racing charts with Apache PDFBox

    “Very interesting! I had never heard of Apache PDFBox before, I must give it a try. I have a similar program that parses horse racing PDFs from sites such as www.racehorserunner.com - which are of a much simpler format, but cause endless problems for me when the PDFs have layout…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Apache PDFBox 2.0.10 released

    “"The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents." (for anyone else who hadn't heard of it before)”

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