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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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