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 25 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, PDFium, Document Cyborg and Qoppa jPDFProcess.

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  1. htmldocs icon
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    An online document editor for creating and automating generation of PDF documents from HTML/CSS. No installation required, REST API, and free to use. Hundreds of templates from invoices, reports, resumes, legal documents, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  2. Poppler icon
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    This is Poppler, a library for rendering PDF files, and examining or modifying their structure. Poppler originally came from the XPDF sources; please see the file README-XPDF for the original xpdf-3.03 README.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  3. PDFium icon
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    PDFium is Google's PDF generation and rendering library. It's used in Chrome for displaying PDFs and print preview and on Android for PDF rendering.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. Easily save a web page as a document (PDF, WORD, EPUB, ODT, RTF or Text).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  5. jPDFProcess is a Java library to create PDF documents, print PDF, split and merge PDF, digitally sign PDF, convert PDF from and to images, fill PDF form fields, and much more...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Debian
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  6. HTML2PDF icon
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    HTML2PDF is a HTML to PDF converter that allows the conversion of valid HTML 4.01 in PDF format, and is distributed under LGPL.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
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  7. Pdfcrowd icon
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    Pdfcrowd lets you convert HTML to PDF online. Create PDF from HTML or web pages directly in your browser or in your Python, Ruby, .NET, Java, and PHP apps via our API.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  8. HiQPdf HTML to PDF Converter .NET is a powerful, fast and precise HTML to PDF converter library to convert HTML5, CSS3, SVG, Canvas, JavaScript and Web Fonts to PDF, to quickly create, edit, merge and split PDF...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. Aspose.Pdf is a Java PDF component to create PDF documents without using Adobe Acrobat DC . It supports Floating box, PDF form field, PDF attachments, security, Foot note & end note, Multiple columns document, Table of Contents, List of...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. PDFSwitch icon
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    Convert any HTML document or URL to PDF with a single API request.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  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 (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
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  12. pdfnative icon
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    Pdfnative is a next-generation PDF generation library built from the ground up in pure TypeScript. It requires zero runtime dependencies and delivers enterprise-grade PDF compliance including ISO 32000-1 (PDF/A) at four conformance levels.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Typescript
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