Since Adobe released the first public PDF Reference in 1993, a number of PDF
utilities and libraries, supporting all kinds of languages and platforms,
have been made available to users and developers alike. However, support for
Adobe's technology has lagged in Java application development. And this is
curious because PDF documents tend to be a popular way of storing and
interchanging information when dealing with enterprise information systems -
an application domain that Java technology is particularly well suited to.
Yet it seems that, until recently, mature, capable PDF support wasn't readily
available to Java applications developers.
PDFBox (an Open Source project released under the BSD license) is a pure Java
library that lets developers read and create PDF document... (more)