Answer by Heiko Oberdiek for How to install PDFBox on Windows so it works with pax?

Unless you have an unpacked PDFBox in C:\PDFBox, the CLASSPATH is wrong. Instead of the directory, the .jar file is needed: C:\PDFBox\PDFBox-0.7.3.jar.

Neither C:\PDFBox\ nor C:\MiKTeX\scripts\pax\ need to be added to the system Path variable.

The spaces in the argument for java's option -cp should not be a problem, because the Perl script uses the array form of function system. But it can be tested:

java -cp "C:\MiKTeX\scripts\pax\pax.jar;C:\PDFBox\PDFBox-0.7.3.jar" pax.PDFAnnotExtractor FileWithBookmarks.pdf

Remarks:

• In Linux/Unix the path separator : is used instead of ;.
• Project pax does not support newer versions of PDFBox. The supported versions are 0.7.2 and 0.7.3.