Apache PDFBox | A Java PDF Library Blog Apache PDFBox Overview License Download Community Support Mailing Lists Issue Tracker Project Team Documentation 4.0 (not released) Migration Guide 3.0 Migration Guide Getting Started Dependencies Command-Line Tools FAQ API Docs via javadoc.io 2.0 Migration Guide Getting Started Examples Dependencies Cookbook Document Encryption Command-Line Tools FAQ API Docs via javadoc.io Development Building from Source Coding Conventions Update the Website Jenkins SonarCloud JIRA Ideas External Links Apache Software Foundation About Security Sponsorship Thanks 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 2.0.37 released 2026-07-15 The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release of Apache PDFBox version 2.0.37. It is available for download at: https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html See the full release notes for details about this release. Getting Help To get help on using PDFBox, please Subscribe to the Users Mailing List and post your questions there. We're happy to help. The project is a volunteer effort and we're always looking for interested people to help us improve PDFBox. There are a multitude of ways that you can help us depending on your skills. Subscribe to the Mailing 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 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 3.0.8 released 2026-07-11 The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release of Apache PDFBox version 3.0.8. It is available for download at: https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html See the full release notes for details about this release. Apache PDFBox JBIG2 ImageIO plugin 3.0.5 released 2026-05-20 The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release of Apache PDFBox JBIG2 ImageIO plugin version 3.0.5. It is available for download at: https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi See the full release notes for details about this release. Apache PDFBox 2.0.36 released 2026-03-15 The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release of Apache PDFBox version 2.0.36. It is available for download at: https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html See the full release notes for details about this release. Apache PDFBox 3.0.7 released 2026-03-09 The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release of Apache PDFBox version 3.0.7. It is available for download at: https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html See the full release notes for details about this release. Apache PDFBox 3.0.6 released 2025-10-16 The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release of Apache PDFBox version 3.0.6. It is available for download at: https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html See the full release notes for details about this release. Copyright © 2009–2026 The Apache Software Foundation. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Apache PDFBox, PDFBox, Apache, the Apache logo and the Apache PDFBox project logos are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation.