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Liaison helps enterprise users benefit from enhanced PDF technology and serves
as a foundation to other software applications.
Forrest Hill, MD —03 February 2015— Apache PDFBox™, a Top-Level Project of The
Apache Software Foundation, today announced the project has been named as a
Partner Organization of the PDF Association.
The Apache PDFBox™ library is an Open Source Java tool for working with
Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. It allows for the creation of new PDF
documents, manipulation, rendering, signing of existing documents and the
ability to extract content from documents. Apache PDFBox also includes several
command line utilities.
We are proud to be recognized by the PDF Association as a driver of
ISO-standardized PDF technology for electronic documents, said Andreas
Lehmkühler, Vice President of Apache PDFBox. Our liaison will help further
strengthen the development of Apache PDFBox by providing access to knowledge
and resources around PDF technology.
PDF was first released by Adobe Systems in 1993, became an ISO International
Standard - ISO 32000-1 in 2008.
Founded in 2006, the PDF Association (http://www.pdfa.org/) is an international
organization promoting awareness and adoption of open standards in digital
document applications using PDF technology. The association facilitates
education, networking, communication, and sharing of expertise and experience
with interested parties worldwide. It offers its membership of over 150
enterprises and individual subject-matter experts from more than 20 countries
direct contact with PDF technology experts and access to documents from ISO
working groups, including release candidates for PDF upcoming standards.
The PDF Association's Partner Organizations are international associations
concerned with document management, enterprise content management, long-term
archiving and accessibility. Apache PDFBox the PDF Association's first Open
Source Partner Organization. The PDF Association delivers vital information
about implementing PDF technology to software developers and IT decision
makers, and helps document management and ECM implementers understand and
leverage ISO-standardized PDF technology. In turn, enterprise systems
implementers and end-users benefit from enhanced PDF technology.
With Apache PDFBox, the first Open Source organization is joining our
Association, said Thomas Zellmann, Managing Director of the PDF Association.
This is our contribution to support the growth of freely available PDF
solutions and their functionality to further expand the market penetration of
the PDF standard.
Being part of the PDF Association recognizes our commitment to making ISO
standardized electronic document technology easily available by leveraging
Apache PDFBox as a foundation for other software applications, added
Lehmkühler.
About Apache PDFBox
The Apache PDFBox™ library is an Open Source Java tool that allows users to
create new PDF documents, manipulate existing documents, extract content,
digitally sign, print, and validate files against the PDF/A-1b standard. It
also includes several command line utilities, including encrypt, decrypt,
overlay, debugger, merger, PDFToImage, and TextToPDF. Apache PDFBox software is
released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected
volunteer 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/
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