PDFBox PDFBox About the Tutorial Apache PDFBox is an open-source Java library that supports the development and conversion of PDF documents. In this tutorial, we will learn how to use PDFBox to develop Java programs that can create, convert, and manipulate PDF documents. Audience This tutorial has been prepared for beginners to make them understand the basics of PDFBox library. This tutorial will help the readers in building applications that involve creation, manipulation and deletion of PDF documents. Prerequisites For this tutorial, it is assumed that the readers have a prior knowledge of Java programming language. Copyright & Disclaimer © Copyright 2016 by Tutorials Point (I) Pvt. Ltd. All the content and graphics published in this e-book are the property of Tutorials Point (I) Pvt. Ltd. The user of this e-book is prohibited to reuse, retain, copy, distribute or republish any contents or a part of contents of this e-book in any manner without written consent of the publisher. 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If you discover any errors on our website or in this tutorial, please notify us at [email protected] i PDFBox Table of Contents About the Tutorial ............................................................................................................................................. i Audience ........................................................................................................................................................... i Prerequisites ..................................................................................................................................................... i Copyright & Disclaimer ...................................................................................................................................... i Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................................. ii 1. PDFBOX – OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................... 1 What is a PDFBox ............................................................................................................................................. 1 Features of PDFBox .......................................................................................................................................... 1 Applications of PDFBox .................................................................................................................................... 2 Components of PDFBox .................................................................................................................................... 2 2. PDFBOX – ENVIRONMENT ............................................................................................................ 3 Using pom.xml ................................................................................................................................................12 3. PDFBOX — CREATING A PDF DOCUMENT .................................................................................. 15 Creating an Empty PDF Document ...................................................................................................................15 Example ..........................................................................................................................................................15 4. PDFBOX — ADDING PAGES ........................................................................................................ 19 Adding Pages to a PDF Document ....................................................................................................................19 Example ..........................................................................................................................................................20 5. PDFBOX — LOADING A DOCUMENT ........................................................................................... 23 Loading an Existing PDF Document ..................................................................................................................23 Example ..........................................................................................................................................................24 6. PDFBOX — REMOVING PAGES ................................................................................................... 27 Removing Pages from an Existing Document ...................................................................................................27 ii PDFBox Example ..........................................................................................................................................................28 7. PDFBOX — DOCUMENT PROPERTIES ......................................................................................... 32 Setting the Document Properties ....................................................................................................................33 Example ..........................................................................................................................................................34 Retrieving the Document Properties ...............................................................................................................38 Example ..........................................................................................................................................................39 8. PDFBOX — ADDING TEXT ........................................................................................................... 41 Adding Text to an Existing PDF Document .......................................................................................................41 Example ..........................................................................................................................................................43 9. PDFBOX — ADDING MULTIPLE LINES ......................................................................................... 46 Example ..........................................................................................................................................................49 10. PDFBOX — READING TEXT ......................................................................................................... 52 Extracting Text from an Existing PDF Document ..............................................................................................52 Example ..........................................................................................................................................................53 11. PDFBOX — INSERTING IMAGE .................................................................................................... 55 Inserting Image to a PDF Document ................................................................................................................55 Example ..........................................................................................................................................................57 12. PDFBOX — ENCRYPTING A PDF DOCUMENT .............................................................................. 61 Encrypting a PDF Document ............................................................................................................................61 Example ..........................................................................................................................................................63 13. PDFBOX — JAVASCRIPT IN PDF DOCUMENT .............................................................................. 66 Adding JavaScript to a PDF Document .............................................................................................................66 Example ..........................................................................................................................................................67 14. PDFBOX — SPLITTING A PDF DOCUMENT .................................................................................. 71 iii PDFBox Splitting the Pages in a PDF Document ............................................................................................................71 Example ..........................................................................................................................................................72 15. PDFBOX — MERGING MULTIPLE PDF DOCUMENTS ................................................................... 77 Merging Multiple PDF Documents ...................................................................................................................77 Example ..........................................................................................................................................................78 16. PDFBOX — EXTRACTING IMAGE ................................................................................................. 84 Generating an Image from a PDF Document....................................................................................................84 Example ..........................................................................................................................................................85