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reports over 11,000 commits (since the start as an Apache project) by 18 contributors representing more than 140,000 lines of code. PDFBox has a well established, mature codebase maintained by an average size development team with increasing
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of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be
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library that can be used to create, render, print, split, merge, alter, verify and extract text and meta-data of
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In February 2015, Apache PDFBox was named an Open Source Partner Organization of the
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Apache™ PDFBox™ named an Open Source Partner Organization of the PDF Association
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by Ben Litchfield who wanted to be able to extract text of PDF files for
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PaDaF Preflight Codebase Intellectual Property (IP) Clearance Status
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Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing
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Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
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Preflight was originally named PaDaF and developed by
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