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The Apache PDFBox™ library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. Apache PDFBox also includes several command line utilities.

Installation

USE flags

USE flags for dev-java/pdfbox Java library and utilities for working with PDF documents

`+tools`	Build and install pdfbox-tools
`doc`	Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally
`source`	Zip the sources and install them
`test`	Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)

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Emerge

root #emerge --ask dev-java/pdfbox

Usage

If compiled with USE=tools it provides a series of command-line utilities. They are available as standard Java applications. Invocations shown below are from version 2.0.26.

user $pdfbox Decrypt

Usage: pdfbox Decrypt [options] <inputfile> [outputfile]

Options:
  -alias    : The alias of the key in the certificate file (mandatory if several keys are available
  -password : The password to open the certificate and extract the private key from it.
  -keyStore : The KeyStore that holds the certificate.

user $pdfbox Encrypt

Usage: pdfbox Encrypt [options] <inputfile> [outputfile]

Options:
  -O <password>                            : Set the owner password (ignored if certFile is set)
  -U <password>                            : Set the user password (ignored if certFile is set)
  -certFile <path to cert>                 : Path to X.509 certificate (repeat both if needed)
  -canAssemble <true|false>                : Set the assemble permission
  -canExtractContent <true|false>          : Set the extraction permission
  -canExtractForAccessibility <true|false> : Set the extraction permission
  -canFillInForm <true|false>              : Set the fill in form permission
  -canModify <true|false>                  : Set the modify permission
  -canModifyAnnotations <true|false>       : Set the modify annots permission
  -canPrint <true|false>                   : Set the print permission
  -canPrintDegraded <true|false>           : Set the print degraded permission
  -keyLength <length>                      : Key length in bits (valid values: 40, 128 or 256, default is 256)

Note: By default all permissions are set to true

user $pdfbox ExtractText

Usage: pdfbox ExtractText [options] <inputfile> [output-text-file]

Options:
  -password <password>        : Password to decrypt document
  -encoding <output encoding> : UTF-8 (default) or ISO-8859-1, UTF-16BE,
                                UTF-16LE, etc.
  -console                    : Send text to console instead of file
  -html                       : Output in HTML format instead of raw text
  -sort                       : Sort the text before writing
  -ignoreBeads                : Disables the separation by beads
  -debug                      : Enables debug output about the time consumption
                                of every stage
  -alwaysNext                 : Process next page (if applicable) despite
                                IOException (ignored when -html)
  -rotationMagic              : Analyze each page for rotated/skewed text,
                                rotate to 0° and extract separately
                                (slower, and ignored when -html)
  -startPage <number>         : The first page to start extraction (1 based)
  -endPage <number>           : The last page to extract (1 based, inclusive)
  <inputfile>                 : The PDF document to use
  [output-text-file]          : The file to write the text to

user $pdfbox ExtractImages

Usage: pdfbox ExtractImages [options] <inputfile>

Options:
  -password <password>   : Password to decrypt document
  -prefix <image-prefix> : Image prefix (default to pdf name)
  -directJPEG            : Forces the direct extraction of JPEG/JPX images 
                           regardless of colorspace or masking
  -noColorConvert        : Images are extracted with their 
                           original colorspace if possible.
  <inputfile>            : The PDF document to use

user $pdfbox OverlayPDF

Usage: pdfbox OverlayPDF <inputfile> [options] <outputfile>

Options:
  <inputfile>                                  : input file
  <defaultOverlay.pdf>                         : default overlay file
  -odd <oddPageOverlay.pdf>                    : overlay file used for odd pages
  -even <evenPageOverlay.pdf>                  : overlay file used for even pages
  -first <firstPageOverlay.pdf>                : overlay file used for the first page
  -last <lastPageOverlay.pdf>                  : overlay file used for the last page
  -useAllPages <allPagesOverlay.pdf>           : overlay file used for overlay, all pages are used by simply repeating them
  -page <pageNumber> <specificPageOverlay.pdf> : overlay file used for the given page number, may occur more than once
  -position foreground|background              : where to put the overlay file: foreground or background
  <outputfile>                                 : output file

user $pdfbox PrintPDF

Usage: pdfbox PrintPDF [options] <inputfile>

Options:
  -password  <password>                : Password to decrypt document
  -printerName <name>                  : Print to specific printer
  -orientation auto|portrait|landscape : Print using orientation
                                           (default: auto)
  -border                              : Print with border
  -dpi                                 : Render into intermediate image with
                                           specific dpi and then print
  -noColorOpt                          : Disable color optimizations
                                           (useful when printing barcodes)
  -silentPrint                         : Print without printer dialog box

Available printer names:
    Brother

user $pdfbox PDFDebugger

user $pdfbox PDFMerger

Usage: pdfbox PDFMerger <inputfiles 2..n> <outputfile>

Options:
  <inputfiles 2..n> : 2 or more source PDF documents to merge
  <outputfile>      : The PDF document to save the merged documents to

user $pdfbox PDFReader

user $pdfbox PDFSplit

Usage: pdfbox PDFSplit [options] <inputfile>

Options:
  -password  <password>  : Password to decrypt document
  -split     <integer>   : split after this many pages (default 1, if startPage and endPage are unset)
  -startPage <integer>   : start page
  -endPage   <integer>   : end page
  -outputPrefix <prefix> : Filename prefix for split files
  <inputfile>            : The PDF document to use

user $pdfbox PDFToImage

Usage: pdfbox PDFToImage [options] <inputfile>

Options:
  -password  <password>            : Password to decrypt document
  -format <string>                 : Available image formats: JPG, jpg, tiff, bmp, BMP, gif, GIF, WBMP, png, PNG, JPEG, tif, TIF, TIFF, wbmp, jpeg
  -prefix <string>                 : Filename prefix for image files
  -page <int>                      : The only page to extract (1-based)
  -startPage <int>                 : The first page to start extraction (1-based)
  -endPage <int>                   : The last page to extract (inclusive)
  -color <string>                  : The color depth (valid: bilevel, gray, rgb (default), rgba)
  -dpi <int>                       : The DPI of the output image, default: screen resolution or 96 if unknown
  -quality <float>                 : The quality to be used when compressing the image (0 <= quality <= 1)
                                     (default: 0 for PNG and 1 for the other formats)
  -cropbox <int> <int> <int> <int> : The page area to export
  -time                            : Prints timing information to stdout
  -subsampling                     : Activate subsampling (for PDFs with huge images)
  <inputfile>                      : The PDF document to use

user $pdfbox TextToPDF

Usage: pdfbox TextToPDF [options] <outputfile> <textfile>

Options:
  -standardFont <name> : Helvetica (default)
                         Courier-Bold
                         Courier-BoldOblique
                         Times-Roman
                         Helvetica-Oblique
                         Courier-Oblique
                         Symbol
                         Times-Italic
                         Helvetica
                         Helvetica-Bold
                         Times-BoldItalic
                         ZapfDingbats
                         Times-Bold
                         Helvetica-BoldOblique
                         Courier
  -ttf <ttf file>      : The TTF font to use.
  -fontSize <fontSize> : default: 10
  -pageSize <pageSize> : Letter (default)
                         Legal
                         A0
                         A1
                         A2
                         A3
                         A4
                         A5
                         A6
  -landscape           : sets orientation to landscape

user $pdfbox WriteDecodedDoc

Usage: pdfbox WriteDecodedDoc [options] <inputfile> [outputfile]

Options:
  -password <password> : Password to decrypt the document
  -skipImages          : Don't uncompress images
  <inputfile>          : The PDF document to be decompressed
  [outputfile]         : The filename for the decompressed pdf

External resources

https://pdfbox.apache.org/2.0/commandline.html