How to merge two PDF files into one in Java?

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I want to merge many PDF files into one using PDFBox and this is what I've done:

PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
for (String pdfFile: pdfFiles) {
    PDDocument part = PDDocument.load(pdfFile);
    List<PDPage> list = part.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages();
    for (PDPage page: list) {
        document.addPage(page);
    }
    part.close();
}
document.save("merged.pdf");
document.close();

Where pdfFiles is an ArrayList<String> containing all the PDF files.

When I'm running the above, I'm always getting:

org.apache.pdfbox.exceptions.COSVisitorException: Bad file descriptor

Am I doing something wrong? Is there any other way of doing it?

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7 Answers

Why not use the PDFMergerUtility of pdfbox?

PDFMergerUtility ut = new PDFMergerUtility();
ut.addSource(...);
ut.addSource(...);
ut.addSource(...);
ut.setDestinationFileName(...);
ut.mergeDocuments();
user_724780

Multiple pdf merged method using org.apache.pdfbox:

public void mergePDFFiles(List<File> files,
                          String mergedFileName) {
    try {
        PDFMergerUtility pdfmerger = new PDFMergerUtility();
        for (File file : files) {
            PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(file);
            pdfmerger.setDestinationFileName(mergedFileName);
            pdfmerger.addSource(file);
            pdfmerger.mergeDocuments(MemoryUsageSetting.setupTempFileOnly());
            document.close();
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        logger.error("Error to merge files. Error: " + e.getMessage());
    }
}

From main program, call mergePDFFiles method using list of files and target file name.

        String mergedFileName = "Merged.pdf";
        mergePDFFiles(files, mergedFileName);

After calling mergePDFFiles, load merged file

        File mergedFile = new File(mergedFileName);
user_9896430

Using iText (existing PDF in bytes)

    public static byte[] mergePDF(List<byte[]> pdfFilesAsByteArray) throws DocumentException, IOException {

    ByteArrayOutputStream outStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    Document document = null;
    PdfCopy writer = null;

    for (byte[] pdfByteArray : pdfFilesAsByteArray) {

        try {
            PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(pdfByteArray);
            int numberOfPages = reader.getNumberOfPages();

            if (document == null) {
                document = new Document(reader.getPageSizeWithRotation(1));
                writer = new PdfCopy(document, outStream); // new
                document.open();
            }
            PdfImportedPage page;
            for (int i = 0; i < numberOfPages;) {
                ++i;
                page = writer.getImportedPage(reader, i);
                writer.addPage(page);
            }
        }

        catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

    document.close();
    outStream.close();
    return outStream.toByteArray();

}
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