# Package org.apache.pdfbox.util

This package contains utility classes that are used by the PDFBox project.

See: Description

Class Summary
DateConverter: Converts dates to strings and back using the PDF date standard in section 3.8.2 of PDF Reference 1.7.
Hex: Utility functions for hex encoding.
IterativeMergeSort: This class provides an iterative (bottom-up) implementation of the MergeSort algorithm for any generic Java object which implements a `Comparator`.
Matrix: This class will be used for matrix manipulation.
NumberFormatUtil: This class contains methods to format numbers.
SmallMap<K,V>: Deprecated will be removed in 4.0.0
StringUtil
Vector: A 2D vector.
Version: Exposes PDFBox version.
XMLUtil: This class with handle some simple XML operations.

## Package org.apache.pdfbox.util Description

This package contains utility classes that are used by the PDFBox project.