Apache PDFBox

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Project Summary

Apache PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library 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.

* PDF to text extraction
* Merge PDF Documents
* PDF Document Encryption/Decryption
* Lucene Search Engine Integration
* Fill in form data FDF and XFDF
* Create a PDF from a text file
* Create image

In a Nutshell, Apache PDFBox...

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has had 236,211 commits made by 6,684 contributors
representing 11,820,982 lines of code
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is mostly written in Java
with an average number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 3,653 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in May, 2005
ending with its most recent commit 2 days ago

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Apache Software Foundation

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Managers:

Andreas Lehmkühler and Jukka Zitting

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Apache License 2.0

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