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TomRoush/PdfBox-Android

The Apache PdfBox project ported to work on Android observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/TomRoush/PdfBox-Android · Java · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

23/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4606
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 898
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1182 stars · 291 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A port of Apache PDFBox to Android, enabling PDF creation, manipulation, and rendering in Android apps. It is distributed via Maven Central as a Gradle dependency and requires a one-line resource loader initialization.

Use cases

  • read and parse pdf files on android
  • render pdf pages to images in an android app
  • create pdf documents programmatically on android
  • extract text from pdfs in a mobile app
  • manipulate existing pdf documents on android
  • handle jpx images inside pdfs on android

When to choose

  • you need full PDFBox-like PDF functionality on Android
  • you want a maintained, Maven Central library with a sample app
  • your app targets API 19+ and needs PDF creation or text extraction

When to avoid

  • you need PDFBox 3.x features (this is based on 2.0.27)
  • you need JPX image support without adding an extra JCenter-only dependency
  • you are building for desktop or server JVM environments (use original Apache PDFBox)

Facets

library · maturity active

pdf pdf-viewer image-processing parser pdf files mobile-development android-tools jvm pdfbox-port android-library pdf-manipulation gradle android

1 source

Member repositories

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