# TomRoush/PdfBox-Android

The Apache PdfBox project ported to work on Android

Repository: https://github.com/TomRoush/PdfBox-Android
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pdfbox-android
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: android, android-library, java
Last push: 2024-03-18T20:51:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4606, "days_push": 898, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1182, forks 291 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:54.297763+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: pdf, pdf-viewer, image-processing, parser
- domain: pdf, files, mobile-development, android-tools
- platform: jvm
- tags: pdfbox-port, android-library, pdf-manipulation, gradle, android

## Member repositories
- TomRoush/PdfBox-Android (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:54.297763+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:24:46.470457+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/TomRoush/PdfBox-Android (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:54.297763+00:00, sha b2b1e978f398)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.