Apache PDFBox

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PDFBox

Developer(s)	Apache Software Foundation
Stable release	1.8.x: 1.8.17 / 15 September 2022; 2 years ago (2022-09-15)[1] 2.0.x: 2.0.32 / 24 July 2024; 3 months ago (2024-07-24)[1] 3.0.x: 3.0.3 / 8 August 2024; 3 months ago (2024-08-08)[1]
Repository	PDFBox Repository (Mirror)
Written in	Java
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Portable Document Format (PDF)
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	pdfbox.apache.org

Apache PDFBox is an open source pure-Java library that can be used to create, render, print, split, merge, alter, verify and extract text and meta-data of PDF files.

Open Hub reports over 11,000 commits (since the start as an Apache project) by 18 contributors representing more than 140,000 lines of code. PDFBox has a well established, mature codebase maintained by an average size development team with increasing year-over-year commits. Using the COCOMO model, it took an estimated 46 person-years of effort.^[2]