01-05-2021



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 3.0.0-RC1 released
2021-04-01

The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the first releasecandidate of Apache PDFBox version 3.0.0. It is available for download at:

Open Source Pdf Editor

See the full release notes for details about this release.

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The Migration Guide shall give users coming fromPDFBox 2.0.x an overview about things to look at when switching over. More details to come.

Getting Help

To get help on using PDFBox, please Subscribe 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 the Mailing Lists and find out how you can help.

Features

Split & Merge

Split a single PDF into many files or merge multiple PDF files.

Preflight

Validate PDF files against the PDF/A-1b standard.

Print a PDF file using the standard Java printing API.

Open

Save as Image

Save PDFs as image files, such as PNG or JPEG.

Create a PDF from scratch, with embedded fonts and images.

News

CVE-2021-27807, CVE-2021-27906 Infinite loop and OutOfMemory
2021-03-20

CVE-2021-27807: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file.

CVE-2021-27906: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading the file.

Versions Affected:Apache PDFBox <= 2.0.22

Mitigation:Upgrade to Apache PDFBox 2.0.23

Apache PDFBox 2.0.23 released
2021-03-18

Open Source Pdf Editor For Windows

The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release ofApache PDFBox version 2.0.23. It is available for download at:

See the full release notes for details about this release.

Apache PDFBox 2.0.22 released
2020-12-19

The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release ofApache PDFBox version 2.0.22. It is available for download at:

See the full release notes for details about this release.

Apache PDFBox 2.0.21 released
2020-08-20

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

See the full release notes for details about this release.

Apache PDFBox 2.0.20 released
2020-06-07

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

See the full release notes for details about this release.

PDFedit is a free open source pdf editor and a library for manipulating PDF documents, released under terms of GNU GPL version 2. It includes PDF manipulating library based on xpdf, GUI, set of command line tools and a pdf editor.

Library

Multiplatform library working on Unix systems, Windows32/64 and also Windows CE and others. You can use it to read, change and extract information from a PDF file. It is based on xpdf library.

GUI

PdfEdit includes pdf editor which graphical interface is based on QT3.x with all features implemented using scripting language; therefore, any user can modify the behaviour by scripts and plugins. See separete section for qt4 based windows pdf editor.

PDFedit is a free open source pdf editor and a library for manipulating PDF documents, released under terms of GNU GPL version 2. It includes PDF manipulating library based on xpdf, GUI, set of command line tools and a pdf editor.

Tools

Open Source Pdf Editor 2019

Tools include example usage of the library which proved to be useful.

Open Source Pdf Editor online, free

PDFedit gui is based on a project led by Jozef Misutka implemented by Eva Peskova and based on pdfedit library. It is still in beta state and we just establisthed the development process.
It included an installer and all the required libraries but standard c++ redistributables. Pdf editor should be able to open all pdf files on windows system. It is open source but not in the main branch of our VCS. Please, feel free to create new issues our bug tracking system if you experience any problems - see link in the second left menu or click here.
In the (hopefully near) future, it should be the same gui as on *nix systems.

Open Source Pdf Editor Ocr