Apache PDFBox® - A 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.

Apache PDFBox 2.0.21 released

2020-08-20

The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release of Apache PDFBox version 2.0.21. It is available for download at:

https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi

See the full release notes for details about this release.

Getting Help

To get help on using PDFBox, please Subscribe to the Users Mailing List and post your questions there. We're happy to help.

The project is a volunteer effort and we're always looking for interested people to help us improve PDFBox. There are a multitude of ways that you can help us depending on your skills. Subscribe to the Mailing Lists and find out how you can help.

Features

Extract Text Extract Unicode text from PDF files. Split & 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.

News

Apache PDFBox 2.0.20 released

2020-06-07

The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release of Apache PDFBox version 2.0.20. It is available for download at:

https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi

See the full release notes for details about this release.

Apache PDFBox 2.0.19 released

2020-02-23

The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release of Apache PDFBox version 2.0.19. It is available for download at:

https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi

See the full release notes for details about this release.

Apache PDFBox 2.0.18 released

2019-12-23

The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release of Apache PDFBox version 2.0.18. It is available for download at:

https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi

See the full release notes for details about this release.

Apache PBFBox JBIG2 ImageIO plugin 3.0.3 released

2019-12-18

The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release of Apache PDFBox JBIG2 ImageIO plugin version 3.0.3. It is available for download at:

https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi

See the full release notes for details about this release.

Apache PDFBox 2.0.17 released

2019-09-20

The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release of Apache PDFBox version 2.0.17. It is available for download at:

https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi

See the full release notes for details about this release.