This is a Java solution. If you want to create PDFs in PHP, FPDF ( http://www.fpdf.org/ http://www.fpdf.org/ ) works great and has tons of addons. The library F

This is a Java solution. If you want to create PDFs in PHP, FPDF ( http://www.fpdf.org/ http://www.fpdf.org/ ) works great and has tons of addons. The library FPDI ( http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi/ http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi/ ) uses FPDF and is probably the closest thing to PDFBox in PHP when it comes to working with existing PDFs. A few years ago I wrote a library using FPDF + FPDI that can overlay barcodes on existing PDFs: http://chir.ag/projects/pdfb/ http://chir.ag/projects/pdfb/ and it has proven to be a very stable and capable setup. We use this at my work to generate over 10,000 pages of PDFs daily from a tiny Apache server.