How can I add external library

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I need to duplicate this pdf-raeder in Kotlin, so I downloaded the pdfbox-app-2.0.17.jar from here and added it to my project structure as External Library

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And added it to the build.gradle as:

dependencies {
    implementation(kotlin("stdlib-jdk8"))
    implementation(kotlin("pdfbox-2.0.17"))
    testCompile("junit", "junit", "4.12")
}

But when tried to import it as:

import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument

I got an error:

Unresolved reference: pdfbox
2

Why don’t you just use Gradle to download the dependency?

Simply add implementation("org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox:2.0.17") to the dependencies block.

See: Maven Central Repository Search

3

Thanks, but I need to lear how to handle such situation in case there is no maven.

4

You weren’t using maven, but gradle. In any case, if you use gradle you use gradle. If you mean without maven repositories, it is possible to add libraries from a project relative folder.

5

IIRC, if instead of entering a Maven co-ordinate string, you use a local file, it picks it up as if it was in a repo.