Apache PDFBox Alternatives

Apache PDFBox is described as 'The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Apache PDFBox for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Apache PDFBox alternative is htmldocs, which is free. Other great apps like Apache PDFBox are Poppler, Document Cyborg, HTML2PDF and Pdfcrowd.

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    BFOs PDF library for creating, editing, displaying and printing Acrobat PDF documents. The PDF API is small, fast, easy to use and integrate into your projects, and is completely written in Java.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. ZetPDF icon
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    ZetPDF is a C# ASP.NET VB.NET PDF API to create PDF documents from scratch using API or XML. PDF library for Windows Forms, WPF and Silverlight as well.

    17 ZetPDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • ASP.NET
    • .NET Framework
    • Microsoft Silverlight
    • Mono
     
  3. getPDFapi icon
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    Writing boilerplate code for generating PDFs is frustrating and time-consuming. https://getpdfapi.com helps you design, customize and generate PDFs for your web-application quickly and easily. From invoices to concert tickets, our graphical, web-based template designer allows...

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. SelectPdf icon
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    HTML to PDF API

    http://selectpdf.com offers a REST API that can be used to convert html to pdf in any language with our dedicated web service.

    SAVE AS PDF LINK

    Add 'Convert to PDF' functionality to your site or blog in a very easy way. Just add a link to your web page.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    jPDFFields is a Java PDF library SDK used to work with interactive PDF forms in both AcroForm and XFA formats. jPDFFields allows your application to get and set field values and can also import and export to FDF, XFDF, and XDP formats.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. jPDFPrint icon
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    Print Acrobat PDF documents directly from your Java application or web application, with or without user intervention. jPDFPrint is a Java library that can load and print PDF documents. Simply call the library to send documents to the printer.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Web2PDF.eu instantly converts any public URL into a clean, print-perfect PDF with full CSS support – no signup, no watermarks, fully GDPR/DSGVO-compliant, hosted in Germany, frontend in all EU-languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    The framework is completely customizable with a full featured set of API and flexible classes. RadaeePDF Master SDK allows you to read, annotate, manipulate, do text searches and extractions, and much more besides.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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    jPDFProcess is a Java PDF Library that can create PDF documents, print PDF, digitally sign PDF, set permissions, merge and split PDF, fill form fields, convert from PDF to images, extracting text and more....

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Debian
     
  10. OpenPDF icon
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    OpenPDF is a free Java library for creating and editing PDF files with a LGPL and MPL open source license. OpenPDF is based on a fork of iText.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Java
     
  11. PDF-LIB icon
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    PDF-LIB is a JavaScript library to let you create and modify PDF documents in any JavaScript environment. Create documents from scratch, or modify existing PDF documents. Draw text, images, and vector graphics. Even embed your own fonts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
     
  12. HTML PDF API icon
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    HTML PDF API is a cloud service that allows you to convert HTML to PDF using standard technologies (HTML, CSS and JavaScript). Free to try!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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