This page lists projects that utilize PDFBox and articles that have been written about PDFBox. Please file an improvement issue to get new projects or articles added to this page, or to update the information on existing links.
| Project Name | License | Project Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alfresco | LGPL - commercial services/support/training is available | Alfresco is an open source, open-standards content repository built by the most experienced content management team that includes the co-founder of Documentum. |
| Apache Tika | Apache License V2.0 | Apache Tika is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries. |
| Centric CRM | Free To Use But Restricted/Commercial | The Most Advanced Open Source CRM Software. |
| Canoo Webtest | BSD Like | Free OpenSource tool for XP-style acceptance testing of Java-based Web applications. |
| contineo | GPL | Contineo is a web based document management system. |
| DirectPrint | BSD | JavaBean used to get back print features lost in Oracle Reports |
| Jahia | collaborative source license | The Jahia product is currently the most powerful, ready-to-use and affordable integrated midrange Java Content Management and Corporate Portal Server. |
| jLibrary | BSD | jLibrary is a Document Management System, oriented for personal and enterprise use. |
| Jomic | GPL | Jomic is a viewer for comic book archives. |
| JpdfUnit | Apache License V2.0 | pdfUnit is a framework for testing a generated pdf document with the JUnit Test Framework. |
| Liferay Portal | MIT | Liferay Portal is an open source portal that helps organizations collaborate more efficiently by providing a consolidated view of disparate applications. |
| LIUS | GPL | LIUS is an indexing Java framework based on the Jakarta Lucene project. The LIUS framework adds to Lucene many files format indexing fonctionalities as: Ms World, Ms Excel, Ms PowerPoint, RTF, PDF, XML, HTML, TXT, Open Office suite and JavaBeans. |
| LuceGene | Artistic License | LuceGene is an open-source document/object search and retrieval system specially tuned for bioinformatics text databases and documents. |
| Lutece | BSD-like | Lutece is a portal engine which allows you to easily create your websites or intranets based upon HTML,XML content. |
| MMBase Lucene Module | MPL | Lucenemodule is a plugin (module) for the MMBase content management system that enables Lucene full text search through it's content, and thanks to PDFBox also PDF content. |
| Nutch | ASL | Nutch is open source web-search software. It builds on Lucene, adding web-specifics, such as a crawler, a link-graph database, parsers for HTML and other document formats, etc. |
| OpenCms | Custom | OpenCms is a professional level Open Source Website Content Management System. |
| OpenSearchServer | GPLv3 | An open source search engine and crawler based on best open source technologies. It is a modern search engine and a suite of high-powered full text search algorithms. |
| Orbeon PresentationServer | LGPL | Orbeon PresentationServer (OPS) is an open source J2EE-based platform for XML-centric web applications. OPS is built around XHTML, XForms, XSLT, XML pipelines, and Web Services, which makes it ideal for applications that capture, process and present XML data. Commercial consulting/training/support is available through orbeon. |
| PDFcat | LGPL | PDFcat is multi-platform catalog manager that provides searching capability over documents among virtual catalogs. |
| PodReader | GPL | PodReader is an application that facilitates making electronic documents like eBooks readable on your iPod. |
| SearchBlox | Commercial | SearchBlox is a high-performance corporate search software designed for the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform. |
| Terrier | MPL | Terrier is software for the rapid development of Web, intranet and desktop search engines. |
| Triboni GinkGO | Commercial | Triboni GinkGO is a highly scalable J2EE services platform that is based on a simple XML business object defintion and scripting language. Toghether with XSLT content centric web applications can be configured in a very short time. |
| Zilverline | Collaborative Source License | Zilverline is a search engine that offers web access to your personal or intranet content. |
| Article Name | Article Abstract |
|---|---|
| Build an eDoc Reader for your iPod Part 1 - User InterfacePart 2 - Document Reading EnginePart 3 - Integration with PDFBox |
A three part article that discusses the implementation of the PodReader application. PodReader is Cocoa application written in Objective-C and article discusses how to use the Cocoa-Java bridge to integrate with the Java version of PDFBox. |
| Lucene In Action | A book that discusses integrating with the lucene search engine. One chapter discusses how to index various file formats and highlights PDFBox for indexing PDF documents. |
| Java Developers Journal - March 2005 | An article written by the lead developer of PDFBox discussing text extraction and AcroForm integration using PDFBox functionality. |
| Refactoring trends across N versions of N Java open source systems: an empirical study | This article describes an empirical study of multiple versions of a range of open source Java systems in an attempt to understand whether refactoring occur and, if so, which types of refactoring were most (and least) common. PDFBox is used as a case study. |