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# External Links

This page lists projects that utilize PDFBox and articles that have been written about PDFBox. 
Please file an [improvement issue](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX) to get new projects or articles added to this page, or to update the information on existing links.

## Projects Using PDFBox

| Project Name | License | Project Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
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## Articles/Books

| Article Name | Article Abstract|
| --- | --- |
| Build an eDoc Reader for your iPod <br/> [Part 1 - User Interface](http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2004/12/14/ipod_reader.html) <br/> [Part 2 - Document Reading Engine](http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2004/12/17/ipod_reader.html) <br/> [Part 3 - *Integration with PDFBox*](http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2005/01/07/ipod_reader.html) | A three part article that discusses the implementation of the PodReader application. PodReader is Cocoa application written in Objective-C and article discusses how to use the Cocoa-Java bridge to integrate with the Java version of PDFBox.|
| [Lucene In Action](http://www.manning.com/hatcher2/) | A book that discusses integrating with the lucene search engine. One chapter discusses how to index various file formats and highlights PDFBox for indexing PDF documents.|
| [Java Developers Journal - March 2005](http://java.sys-con.com/node/48543) | An article written by the lead developer of PDFBox discussing text extraction and AcroForm integration using PDFBox functionality.|
| [Refactoring trends across N versions of N Java open source systems: an empirical study](http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/research/techreps/2005/bbkcs-05-02.pdf) | This article describes an empirical study of multiple versions of a range of open source Java systems in an attempt to understand whether refactoring occur and, if so, which types of refactoring were most (and least) common. PDFBox is used as a case study. |