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
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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 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.