#32 PDFBox jar file as Reference for MS Access VBA project?

[Tony Macelli]

Intending to read and work with my PDF files through VBA API calls from PDFBox library,, I've downloaded a PDFBox jar file from https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi, placed it in the Program Files folder in my PC (Win 11 Home), opened a MS Access VBA database (part of MS Office 365), and in the VBA interface used Tools | Reference ... and found the jar file. An error resulted: "Can't add a reference to the specified file."

I tried this three times, with each of the following files: pdfbox-2.0.1.jar , pdfbox-2.0.16.jar ,
pdfbox-app-3.0.0-alpha3.jar - but in each case the resulting error was the same.

Wha tam I doing wrong and ho wcan I achieve my aim? Thanks.