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# Getting Started

## Maven

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

```xml
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.pdfbox</groupId>
  <artifactId>pdfbox</artifactId>
  <version>2.0.36</version>
</dependency>
```

## Rendering Performance ##

<p class="alert alert-info">Since PDFBox 2.0.4</p>

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.