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leomage/php-pdfbox
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PHP-PDFBox

v1.0.0(7y ago)210[1 issues](https://github.com/leomage/php-pdfbox/issues)MITPHPPHP ^7.1

Since Apr 16Pushed 7y agoCompare

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PHP PDFBox
==========

[](#php-pdfbox)

PHP-PDFBox is a tiny lib which helps you to use PDFBox

PDFBox is published under the Apache License v2.0 and is described as "The Apache PDFBox® library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents."

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

It is recommended to install PHP-PDFBox through [Composer](http://getcomposer.org) :

```
{
    "require": {
        "leomage/php-pdfbox": "^1.0"
    }
}
```

Main API usage:
---------------

[](#main-api-usage)

```
$file = new \Pdfbox\Processor\PdfFile(
    new Pdfbox(
        '/path/to/java',
        '/path/to/pdfbox-app.jar',
        new \Psr\Log\NullLogger()
    );
);

// Convert pdf to text
echo $file->toText('test.pdf');
```

See `examples/*.php` for more examples.

License
-------

[](#license)

PHP-Pdfbox is released under MIT License

See LICENSE file for more information

###  Health Score

22

—

LowBetter than 22% of packages

Maintenance10

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity54

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

2587d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4b243870e5861f4855cc0ad1c0ea3a3260e837103e5ea177180b57c6c4db309?d=identicon)[leomage](/maintainers/leomage)

---

Top Contributors

[![thefreeleo](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/13882054?v=4)](https://github.com/thefreeleo "thefreeleo (4 commits)")

---

Tags

pdfpdfbox

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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