Java API to Process & Manipulate PDF Files

Aspose.PDF for Java is a PDF document creation component that enables your Java applications to read, write and manipulate PDF documents without using Adobe Acrobat.

Directory	Description
examples/documentation	Runnable Java examples used by Aspose.PDF documentation.
docs	Repository structure and contribution guidance.

aspose.pdf Package Features

PDF Document Features

• Set basic information (e.g. author, creator) of the PDF document.
• Configure PDF Page properties (e.g. width, height, cropbox, bleedbox etc.).
• Set page numbering, bookmark level, page sizes etc.
• Apply document open action, open mode as well as appearance.
• Document can have different page transition effects such as dissolve or box.
• Create PDF documents via XML, API or XML and API combined.
• Ability to work with text, paragraphs, headings, hyperlinks, graphs, attachments etc.

Security Features

• PDF documents can be encrypted up to 128 bits.
• Master and user passwords can be set for PDF encryption.
• Apply restrictions on content modification, copying, printing and other operations.

Conversion Features

• Convert an existing XML file (.XML) or XmlDocument to a new PDF document or a PDF file stream.
• Convert conventional Image formats into PDF file.
• Convert PCL files into PDF file.

For a more comprehensive list of features, please visit Features of aspose.pdf Package.

com.aspose.pdf Package Features

• Supports 14 core fonts.
• Support for Type 1, TrueType, Type 3, CJK fonts.
• Unicode support is available.
• Add, search, extract and replace text in PDF files.
• Add/delete, extract and replace images.
• Insert, delete, split PDF pages.
• Support for Linearization (optimization for the web).
• Set and get XMP metadata.
• Validate (PDF/A-1a, PDF/A-1b).
• Work with bookmarks, annotations, PDF forms, stamps, watermarks and more.

For a more comprehensive list of features, please visit Features of com.aspose.pdf Package.

com.aspose.pdf.facades Package Features

• Supports 14 core fonts.
• Support for Type 1, TrueType, Type 3, CJK fonts.
• Unicode support is available.
• Add, replace and extract text & images (from the entire PDF, a particular page, or a range of pages).
• Work with bookmarks, annotations, PDF forms, links, actions, signature and more.
• Print PDF to default, specified, physical, or virtual printer.
• Print PDF to XPS file or XPS printer.

For a more comprehensive list of features, please visit Features of com.aspose.pdf.facades Package.

Read & Write PDF & Other Formats

Fixed Layout: PDF, XPS
Books: EPUB
Web: HTML
Other: TEX, XML, SVG

Save PDF Documents As

Microsoft Office: DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPTX
Images: JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, EMF
Other: MobiXML, XML, TEXT

Read Formats

CGM, MHT, PCL, PS, XSLFO, MD

Supported Environments

• Microsoft Windows: Windows Desktop & Server (x86, x64)
• macOS: Mac OS X
• Linux: Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, CentOS, and others
• Java Version: JDK 25 or newer

Get Started with Aspose.PDF for Java

Aspose hosts Java APIs at the Aspose Java Repository. You can use Aspose.PDF for Java directly in Maven projects with simple configuration. For detailed setup instructions, see Installing Aspose.PDF for Java from Aspose Repository.

Build all Maven modules from the repository root with:

mvn clean compile

Run one documentation example runner with:

cd examples/documentation
mvn -DskipTests exec:java "-Dexec.mainClass=com.aspose.pdf.examples.basicoperations.BasicOperationsExamples"

Extract text from a PDF file using Java

import com.aspose.pdf.Document;
import com.aspose.pdf.TextAbsorber;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;

try (Document pdfDocument = new Document("input.pdf")) {
  TextAbsorber textAbsorber = new TextAbsorber();
  pdfDocument.getPages().accept(textAbsorber);
  Files.writeString(Path.of("Extracted_text.txt"), textAbsorber.getText(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
}

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