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Betreff: The Apache® Software Foundation announces Apache PDFBox™ v2.0
Datum: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 11:44:18 +0000 (UTC)
Von: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>
Antwort an: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>
An: Apache Announce List <[email protected]>
this announcement is available online at https://s.apache.org/Ly9B
Milestone release of Open Source Java tool for working with PDF documents
features dozens of improvements and enhancements
Forest Hill, MD —21 March 2016— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the
all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source
projects and initiatives, announced today the availability of Apache® PDFBox™
v2.0, the Open Source Java tool for working with Portable Document Format (PDF)
documents.
PDF was first released by Adobe Systems in 1993, and became an ISO International
Standard - ISO 32000-1 in 2008. Apache PDFBox allows for the creation of new PDF
documents, manipulation, rendering, signing of existing documents and the
ability to extract content from documents. In addition, PDFBox includes several
command line utilities. In February 2015, the project became the first Open
Source Partner Organization of the PDF Association.
"PDF is a very popular and easy to use format for document exchange. It is used
by millions of people every day, however the format itself is quite complicated
and a real challenge to write a piece of software to work with it," said Andreas
Lehmkühler, Vice President of Apache PDFBox. "This new major release of PDFBox
includes a lot of improvements, fixes and new features which should make the
life easier for our users."
Under The Hood
The Apache PDFBox library enables users to create new PDF documents, manipulate
existing documents, extract content, digitally sign, print, and validate files
against the PDF/A-1b standard. Its command line utilities include encrypt,
decrypt, overlay, debugger, merger, PDFToImage, and TextToPDF.
PDFBox v2.0 reflects 1,167 solved issues, 418 of which were back-ported to v1.8,
as well as dozens of improvements and enhancements. Highlights include:
- improved rendering and text extraction
- Unicode support for PDF creation
- overhauled interactive forms support
- extended signing and encryption support
- overhauled parser including a self-healing mechanism for malformed or
corrupted PDFs
- reduced memory/resources footprint including fine grained control of memory
usage
- enhanced preflight module for PDF/A-1b conformance checking
- rearranged package structure to allow smaller runtime environments
A guide to migrating to v2.0 is available at
http://pdfbox.apache.org/2.0/migration.html , with community support at
http://pdfbox.apache.org/mailinglists.html
"We thank all the people from our small but fine community for their support,"
explained Lehmkühler. "Special thanks also goes to our fellow colleagues from
the Apache Tika project for their cooperation in stress-testing with a corpus of
250,000 PDF files."
"We are grateful for the Google Summer of Code program," said PDFBox committer
Tilman Hausherr. "The project allowed us to hire students to improve 3D
rendering and the PDFDebugger stand-alone application, which also sped up our
own bug finding."
"Apache PDFBox v2.0 is a significant milestone as it took us several years to
complete," added Lehmkühler. "This long-awaited release is the collective
achievement of more than 150 individuals who have contributed code to date.
Without their frequent contributions it wouldn't be possible to drive a project
like PDFBox."
Availability and Oversight
Apache PDFBox software is released under the Apache License v2.0 and is overseen
by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project
Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including
community development and product releases. For downloads, documentation, and
ways to become involved with Apache PDFBox, visit http://pdfbox.apache.org/
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 leading
Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular
Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache
Way," more than 550 individual Members and 5,300 Committers successfully
collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting
millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed
under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing
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