diff --git a/pdf/pom.xml b/pdf/pom.xml
index d148aa1670..88836c5ce9 100644
--- a/pdf/pom.xml
+++ b/pdf/pom.xml
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@
     </parent>
 
     <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
+            <version>${commons-codec.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+    
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.pdfbox</groupId>
             <artifactId>pdfbox-tools</artifactId>
@@ -80,6 +86,7 @@
         <poi-scratchpad.version>3.15</poi-scratchpad.version>
         <batik-transcoder.version>1.8</batik-transcoder.version>
         <poi-ooxml.version>3.15</poi-ooxml.version>
+        <commons-codec.version>1.14</commons-codec.version>
     </properties>
 
 </project>
diff --git a/pdf/src/test/java/com/baeldung/pdf/base64/EncodeDecodeUnitTest.java b/pdf/src/test/java/com/baeldung/pdf/base64/EncodeDecodeUnitTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0fb61ea121
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pdf/src/test/java/com/baeldung/pdf/base64/EncodeDecodeUnitTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+package com.baeldung.pdf.base64;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotEquals;
+
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+
+import org.junit.BeforeClass;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class EncodeDecodeUnitTest {
+
+    private static final String IN_FILE = "src/test/resources/input.pdf";
+    private static final String OUT_FILE = "src/test/resources/output.pdf";
+    private static byte[] inFileBytes;
+
+    @BeforeClass
+    public static void fileToByteArray() throws IOException {
+        inFileBytes = Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(IN_FILE));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenJavaBase64_whenEncoded_thenDecodedOK() throws IOException {
+
+        byte[] encoded = java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encode(inFileBytes);
+
+        byte[] decoded = java.util.Base64.getDecoder().decode(encoded);
+
+        writeToFile(OUT_FILE, decoded);
+
+        assertNotEquals(encoded.length, decoded.length);
+        assertEquals(inFileBytes.length, decoded.length);
+
+        assertArrayEquals(decoded, inFileBytes);
+
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenApacheCommons_givenJavaBase64_whenEncoded_thenDecodedOK() throws IOException {
+
+        byte[] encoded = org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64.encodeBase64(inFileBytes);
+
+        byte[] decoded = org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64.decodeBase64(encoded);
+
+        writeToFile(OUT_FILE, decoded);
+
+        assertNotEquals(encoded.length, decoded.length);
+        assertEquals(inFileBytes.length, decoded.length);
+
+        assertArrayEquals(decoded, inFileBytes);
+    }
+
+    private void writeToFile(String fileName, byte[] bytes) throws IOException {
+        FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(fileName);
+        fos.write(bytes);
+        fos.flush();
+        fos.close();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/pdf/src/test/resources/input.pdf b/pdf/src/test/resources/input.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..94d9477974
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