Apache PDFBox

This project will allow access to all of the components in a PDF document from inside Java applications.

FontBox and JempBox are also available for download.

What is new in this release:

• OverlayPDF logic should be moved into a library class
• Load document error for two RegisSTAR documents
• TestFilters is non-deterministic
• PDFCloneUtility does not handle COSStreamArray
• RubberStampWithImage should support more image types
• Make TestImageIOUtils optional in 1.8 for Fedora packaging
• Support for multipage TIFFs in CCITTFactory, makes PDFBox capable of doing tiff2pdf
• Added PDFBox version to the title
• COSDocument and PDDocument declare throws IOException when they don't
• Added unit test for RandomAccessFileOutputStream

What is new in version 1.8.9:

• OverlayPDF logic should be moved into a library class
• Load document error for two RegisSTAR documents
• TestFilters is non-deterministic
• PDFCloneUtility does not handle COSStreamArray
• RubberStampWithImage should support more image types
• Make TestImageIOUtils optional in 1.8 for Fedora packaging
• Support for multipage TIFFs in CCITTFactory, makes PDFBox capable of doing tiff2pdf
• Added PDFBox version to the title
• COSDocument and PDDocument declare throws IOException when they don't
• Added unit test for RandomAccessFileOutputStream

What is new in version 1.8.8:

• OverlayPDF logic should be moved into a library class
• Load document error for two RegisSTAR documents
• TestFilters is non-deterministic
• PDFCloneUtility does not handle COSStreamArray
• RubberStampWithImage should support more image types
• Make TestImageIOUtils optional in 1.8 for Fedora packaging
• Support for multipage TIFFs in CCITTFactory, makes PDFBox capable of doing tiff2pdf
• Added PDFBox version to the title
• COSDocument and PDDocument declare throws IOException when they don't
• Added unit test for RandomAccessFileOutputStream

What is new in version 1.8.1:

• Bug Fixes:
• PDGraphicsState class receives null page argument leading to NPE
• Content of annotation not visible in image (converted from PDF)
• TextPosition.getX() and getY() do not work properly with CropBox
• TTFSubFont generates bug-prone TTF sub fonts screwing some printers
• Merging PDFs with interactive forms results in a corrupt PDF
• Saving a document containing a xfa form creates invalid pdf
• NonSequentialPDFParser incorrectly parsing document info
• Unused PDSignature class should be removed
• Error when using monospaced Fonts

What is new in version 1.7.1:

• Change the wrapped exception to extend Exception and pass the wrapped exception for more standard/better printout of wrapped exceptions
• Only parsing object streams if they are referenced by the xref table/stream
• Stream parsing of BaseParser should fall back to scanning if length value is wrong
• Reduce the memory consumption of a RandomAccessBuffer

What is new in version 1.7.0:

• CJK decoding
• Integration of a PDF/A validator in PDFBox
• Implement type 4 functions (PDFunctionType4)
• Color conversion for PDJpegs using a DeviceN colorspace
• Added "Save as image" to PDFReader
• Allow subclassing of PDFParser
• Added support to set a start and/or end page when splitting a PDF
• Support CIDToGIDMap of CID-Type2 fonts
• Split PDFont#encode

What is new in version 1.6.0:

• Improvements:
• PDF signing interface and improvements
• Can't extract b/w images from PDF
• Create Type1C font metrics only when necessary
• Skip PS XObjects instead of throwing an exception
• Add optional debug output to ExtractText
• Unnecessary filling new array with zeros in RandomAccessBuffer::write(byte[], int, int)
• Unnecessary using intermediate ByteArrayInputStream to copy from given byte array to OutputStream in FlateFilter::decode
• Remove imageIO dependency (was: PDPage convertToImage bug creates white images from black and white pdf files.)
• Signing improvement (settable signature size)
• PDF Version not read in the document catalog
• Unit tests for PDFBox features
• Bug Fixes:
• Rotated images aren't placed and rendered correctly while converting PDF pages to images
• CLONE -convertToImage seems to invert colors
• Convert to image makes blank image
• PDF 2 Tiff conversion is not happening properly
• RandomAccessBuffer returns wrong values for single byte reads, patch attached

What is new in version 1.5.0:

• Improvements:
• PDFDocument.save is really slow
• Read non-conforming PDFs (attached) without throwing ...
• Added NPE protection which occurred when reading corrupt PDFs
• Avoid using temporary files in PDJpeg
• Don't use temporty files by default for all PDF sizes
• Bug Fixes:
• Error on text extraction: java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsExceptio
• PDFTextStripper not handling some Japanese
• NPE NullPointerException in PDPageNode.getCount
• CFFParser.readCharset java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
• Failed to create Type1C font. Falling back to Type1 font
• PDFont fails to close Font File.
• NPE in PDPageNode
• PDFStreamEngine.processEncodedText fails on UTF-16 text
• ExtractText china pdf ,but pdfbox distinguish Korea,The ...
• Text not extracted with PDFBox 1.4
• Wrong extracted text using PDFBox 1.4
• Lost whitespaces when extracting Arabic text
• Extracting Japanese characters gives garbage
• Image quality improvements
• PDFBOX may not depend on plattform encoding
• RandomAccessBuffer shoud be created empty
• ExtractText returns junk
• getParent method of class PDField doesn't consider both ...
• Text extraction slow and /tmp fills upwith AWT font files
• Null Pointer Exception when Annotation is missing the Subtype

What is new in version 1.3.1:

• New Features:
• CID to Unicode mapping
• Find encodings in FontFile3 - CompactFont Format
• Add utility class to easily extract a range of pages from a PDF
• PDFToImage : add the ability to select the area to export ...
• Add WriteDecodedDoc to standalone app
• Improvements:
• Addtional CMap files from adobe
• Handle JPEG2000 images via JPXDecode filter
• Please accommodate '-' where a number is expected
• Implementation of additional CMAP Formats for TrueType fonts
• Access to metadata keys in the PD model
• Update/adjust used junit version
• Update/reactivate ant build
• Objects from streams overwrite objects already read with ..
• Better handle out of spec PDFs
• Add ability to ignore errors with AcroForms
• PDPixelMap is too verbose
• Better handle corrupt/missing %%EOF flags at the end of a file
• Improved handling erronous data between endstream and ...
• Remove dependency on PageDrawer from text only operators
• Support TIFF predictor 2 with FlateDecode, patch included
• Increase performance of ColorSpaceCMYK.toRGB, patch attached
• Bug Fixes:
• Problems with text extraction form Polish documents.
• Indexed color images have wrong colors after encryption
• Exception in text extraction
• PDFMergerUtility may create non-unique AcroForm field names
• Somtimes, TextPosition have incorrect value ..
• Text Extraction strips 1 char when extracting a twin pair
• Incorrect text for Exolab.pdf in Regression Test
• Improper text produced depending on font for ...
• PDFBox can't parse PDF documents from jstor.org
• testextract failure on Linux and Mac OS X
• Last characters in a line overlap when a PDF is printed
• Invalid text rendering while printing a PDF
• Re-setting filled properties of PDDocumentInformation do ...
• EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in fontmanager.so/fontmanager.dll
• PDChoiceField's implementation of SetValue does not work ...
• CMap parser doesn't work for double byte mappings with ...
• PrintPDF does not take the windows default printer ...
• Error by text extraction
• Text extraction from PDF generated from MS Word fails
• scratchfile ignored in PDDocument load( File file, ...
• Extratced ascii text in CJK document is malformed
• PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF() freezes (at TTFDataStream.java:195)
• Problem in extracting roman page numbers [PDPageLabels.java]
• ClassCastException: COSInteger cannot be cast to COSDictionary
• PDFont.getEncodingManager is not thread safe; FIX included
• Wrong handling of PNG predictors with FlateDecode, patch ...
• Wrong opacity for images with indexed color space
• Spaces dissapear and text is shifted left
• IIOException: Error 2 when displaying PDF containing CCITT ...
• Write2File Fails for PDCalRGB
• Use COSName constant instead of COSString
• Umlauts font size calculation problem
• [pdfbox-app] maven-bundle-configuration problem
• Documentation: prominent example has out-of-date class name
• AFM-files aren't loaded
• TextExtraction mixes case of text
• PageDrawer does not take the full CropBox into account
• Define a standard encoding for the standard 14 fonts
• Indexed images are sometimes corrupted when encrypting the PDF
• OutOfMemoryError in text extraction tests