Apache PDFBox Reviews & Product Details

The truth is that it is a very useful tool but it is being named relatively now, it is very useful since it is open source therefore anyone can use it and besides that it allows us to operate with PDF files, that is to say , allows us to create, process, print, divide, combine, extract texts, among many other functions, it is worth mentioning that it is a JAVA library and to be used with this programming language, its integration is super simple and fast in the language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only negative thing is that it does not have much support or a large community to support it, in addition to technical support is not very good at the time of consulting doubts but outside of that I think a very good option to turn to as a programmer when we want to use functions with PDF. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Works well with JAVA and JVM supported languages. Easy Integration,

Dependencies easily managed via maven.

Ability to create new pdf well as editing and merging multiple pdf makes it really great.

Most easy way to manipulate PDF documents in Java Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some functionalities are lost or changed during migration to the new version.

Pdfbox-1.8 to Pdfbox-2.0.2

such as with code for creating pdf from native doc and word doc, some random characters were getting inserted, so had to revert the upgrade and apply manual fix before upgrade,

Not Backward compactible.

Upgrade of of Java 8 to my application using Pdfbox 2.0.2 cause much slowness in document creation process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Apache PDFBox is free, is less resouce intensive, fast, can be easily integrated to the JAVA code, has lots of examples and is still growing to support newer features. And one thing special you can edit a pdf say remove 10 pages from an existing document by simply writing 2 lines of code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not all features are supported. Compared to the paid licensed iText is the best in this category but the cost involved may not be feasible for all small companies who have IT as a supporting area in their business. Also since not everyday we require all advanced feature so PDFbox is pretty good. Its is a little memory intensive where iText stands optimized. So depending upon the business leverage low cost and best solution PDFbox would be my choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If Java is something you are used to give it a try. It's fairly robust and easy to incorporate into website or stand-alone apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing really, just make sure to have something like intelliJ or something. Good IDE to navigate the library. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This project is open source and community driven. People have come together to create a truly functional set of utilities to perform common PDF tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isn't really anything that I didn't like. As with any tool, it takes time to learn the syntax and practicing write code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Apache PDFBox 2 is a generally simple approach to control PDF reports in Java. Its liberal Apache 2 permit makes it agreeable to an exceptionally expansive gathering of people and its open source nature enables engineers to perceive how to utilize the libraries it utilizes underneath the spreads and adjust it as required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing as such the product is really good since it is an open source product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

So easy to use especially with JAVA files. Makes editing super easy. Runs extremely smooth as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Doesn’t have much support to it. When you run into an technical issues it can be a bit time consuming to get support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very affordable. It is less likely to break the bank. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It isn't compatible with all other programs. It is easy to download and it doesn't take up as much space as a competing software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that I can manipulate existing PDF files whereas before, I could only read them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do not dislike anything about this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the best thing is that it's an opensource API in java , we just have to download the JAR file and import JPDFBox class to access PDF document from your java program,and it contains all kind of methods that you can think of while working with PDF documents,we can extract text , create PDF , split PDF ,insert image , watch preview of PDF using java language !! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

they release new versions very rarely , sometimes it throws exception although your code is correct!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.