Getting Started

Maven

To use the latest release you'll need to add the following dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.pdfbox</groupId>
  <artifactId>pdfbox</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.2</version>
</dependency>

Rendering Performance

Since PDFBox 2.0.4

PDFBox 2.0.4 introduced a new command line setting

-Dorg.apache.pdfbox.rendering.UsePureJavaCMYKConversion=true

which may improve the performance of rendering PDFs on some systems especially if there are a lot of images on a page.