Apache PDFBox 2 by Dustin Marx.
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Apache PDFBox 2 was released earlier this year and Apache PDFBox 2.0.1 and Apache PDFBox 2.0.2 have since been released. Apache PDFBox is open source (Apache License Version 2) and Java-based (and so is easy to use with wide variety of programming language including Java, Groovy, Scala, Clojure, Kotlin, and Ceylon). Apache PDFBox can be used by any of these or other JVM-based languages to read, write, and work with PDF documents.
Apache PDFBox 2 introduces numerous bug fixes in addition to completed tasks and some new features. Apache PDFBox 2 now requires Java SE 6 (J2SE 5 was minimum for Apache PDFBox 1.x). There is a migration guide, Migration to PDFBox 2.0.0, that details many differences between PDFBox 1.8 and PDFBox 2.0, including updated dependencies (Bouncy Castle 1.53 and Apache Commons Logging 1.2) and “breaking changes to the library” in PDFBox 2.
PDFBox can be used to create PDFs. The next code listing is adapted from the Apache PDFBox 1.8 example “Create a blank PDF” in the Document Creation “Cookbook” examples. The referenced example explicitly closes the instantiated PDDocument and probably does so for benefit of those using a version of Java before JDK 7. For users of Java 7, however, try-with-resources is a better option for ensuring that the
PDDocumentinstance is closed and it is supported becausePDDocumentimplements AutoCloseable.…
If you don’t know Apache PDFBox™, its homepage lists the following features:
- Extract Text
- Split & Merge
- Save as Image
- Fill Forms
- Create PDFs
- Preflight
- Signing
Warning: If you are using Apache PDFBox, update to the most recent version.
CVE-2016-2175 XML External Entity vulnerability (2016-05-27)
Due to a XML External Entity vulnerability we strongly recommend to update to the most recent version of Apache PDFBox.
Versions Affected: Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.11 and 2.0.0. Earlier, unsupported versions may be affected as well.
Mitigation: Upgrade to Apache PDFBox 1.8.12 respectively 2.0.1