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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 3.0.4 released
2025-01-23
The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release ofApache PDFBox version 3.0.4. It is available for download at:
https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html
See thefull release notes for details about this release.
Getting Help
To get help on using PDFBox, pleaseSubscribe to the Users Mailing List and post yourquestions there. We're happy to help.
The project is a volunteer effort and we're always looking for interested people to helpus improve PDFBox. There are a multitude of ways that you can help us depending on yourskills. Subscribe to theMailing 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 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 2.0.33 released
2025-01-16
The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release ofApache PDFBox version 2.0.33. It is available for download at:
https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html
See thefull release notes for details about this release.
Apache PDFBox 3.0.3 released
2024-08-08
The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release ofApache PDFBox version 3.0.3. It is available for download at:
https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html
See thefull release notes for details about this release.
TheMigration Guide shall give users coming fromPDFBox 2.0.x an overview about things to look at when switching over. More details to come.
Apache PDFBox 2.0.32 released
2024-07-24
The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release ofApache PDFBox version 2.0.32. It is available for download at:
https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html
See thefull release notes for details about this release.
Apache PDFBox 2.0.31 released
2024-03-24
The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release ofApache PDFBox version 2.0.31. It is available for download at:
https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html
See thefull release notes for details about this release.
Apache PDFBox 3.0.2 released
2024-03-14
The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release ofApache PDFBox version 3.0.2. It is available for download at:
https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html
See thefull release notes for details about this release.
TheMigration Guide shall give users coming fromPDFBox 2.0.x an overview about things to look at when switching over. More details to come.