Open Source Java PDF Generation Libraries

iText is an open-source PDF library available for Java and .NET (C#). iText allows you to effortlessly generate and manipulate standards-compliant PDF documents with a powerful and feature-rich SDK. With iText, you can create archivable and accessible PDFs, split and merge documents, fill and flatten forms, digitally sign documents, and more. iText add-ons enable additional functionality, such as PDF creation from HTML templates, secure redaction, OCR, and much more. The latest versions of iText build on the success of previous versions and feature an improved document engine, high and low-level programming capabilities, and a more efficient modular structure. iText represents the next level for developers looking to leverage PDF in document workflows. The main project page for iText is now on GitHub, and all the latest releases, code samples, open source add-ons and tools, etc. can be found at https://github.com/itext/.

ConcatPDF is the tool to concatenate PDF files. It can concatenate, extract, encrypt, decrypt, configure PDF files, convert image files to PDF. GUI version and CUI version are both available. iText.NET is iText porting on .NET Framework by J#. This library allows you to generate PDF, (X)HTML, XML, RTF files on Microsoft.NET Framework including ASP.NET.

Open HTML to PDF is a pure-Java library for rendering a reasonable subset of well-formed XML/XHTML (and even some HTML5) using CSS 2.1 (and later standards) for layout and formatting, outputting to PDF or images. Use this library to generated nice looking PDF documents. But be aware that you can not throw modern HTML5+ at this engine and expect a great result. You must special craft the HTML document for this library and use it's extended CSS feature like #31 or #32 to get good results. Avoid floats near page breaks and use table layouts.

Early Access iText, a PDF generation library in Java

JSAMS is a system that manages all the accounting documents. All the flow of a simplified accounting management system, an estimate can be transferred to a command or a bill, a command can be transferred to a delivery order or a bill, a delivery order can be transferred to a bill, a bill can be transferred to a credit note, a credit note is the final document of the accounting management. That can be also possible to transfer partially a command or a delivery note to a bill!!!

The library is a fork of the popular open source Jasper Reports and supports the common features provided by Jasper Reports, but offline and for mobile apps. The PDFReporter library supports iOS, Java and Android library. For your document and report design you use the PDFReporter Studio where you can visualize your data. If you want to use the library commercially please visit our official webpage.

A simple online service for PDF conversion. This project is a simple library and also a web application. It offers a REST service and a simple upload service for synchronous conversion. This library/application doesn't contain conversion libraries because it's a wrapper for existing tools. toPDF currently supports the open source tool PDF Creator (http://www.pdfforge.org) and the commercial solution, easy PDF, from BCL (http://www.pdfonline.com/easypdf/sdk/).

Application to create PDF document on the fly from any source file format(PRN,HTML,TEXT,CSV) with complete mailing system and reports module. It's made over following library Pdf - IText Web Server- Simple Frame work Database- H2

Crossplatform menstruation calender with dynamic pdf-report-generation via server-script. The calender is intended for the CLDC profile and MIDP1.0 - like mobile phones, PDA and is written in J2ME. The server allows dynamic upload and pdf-generation and

This is a Java port of the original FPDF free PDF generation library for PHP.

The Nheengatu Project is a Java library that provides HTML markup abstraction allowing you to reutilize it to generate PDF files, OpenOffice documents, image files, etc. The goal of this project is to maximize the use of HTML markup procedures.

Graphane is a solution to generate and deliver enterprise documents (PDF, ODT, RTF, HTML). Templates documents are designed with OpenOffice Writer. Any application being able to export data in XML format can submit these data to the Graphane Server.

this is a small JSP tag library which allows you to create PDF documents within your JSPs. All you need to do is add the jar file to your lib folder under WEB-INF and the tld file in a tld folder under WEB-INF and you are ready to use the tags.

Reporting engine library written in C. Create one XML file and generate PDF, HTML, TXT, and CSV reports based on queries. Has support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC. Bindings for PHP, Java, Python.

Shipping biller is benificial tool for generating shipping bills. Its also usefull to manuplate bill data. It can handle three types(Sea Export Shipment, Air Shipment , Import Bill) of shipping bills

Toolkit e-formulieren is een opensource toolkit voor het op een gebruikersvriendelijke manier kunnen maken en onderhouden van e-formulieren. De Toolkit maakt gebruik van Orbeon, en ondersteunt XForms-compliant e-formulieren, evt. met voorinvulling.

The Umber project provides simple, flexible, "earthy" Java tool libraries for developers. The tools supplement common tasks like XML handling, data processing, and PDF generation, but without the complex and arcane APIs of most modern implementations.

Copperhead is a small and simple library providing a Swing user interface that allows one to automatically generate PDF documents from annotated objects using the iText PDF library. Copperhead is developed under GPLv3. Please download Copperhead 0.1b for iText 2 and 0.2b for iText5. Read more on http://byteality.ch/blog. Enjoy!

iText Programming Tutorials. Example code and detail explanation on how to generate Adobe PDF document with iText API. Example of AcroForm, bookmark, anchor, insert images, generate PDF with Java App, JSP or Servlet, create PDF table and etc.

openPDF is based on a several open source software products, such as iText, JPedal, CryptoApplet among others. Allow users to view/modify PDF documents and forms, barcodes generation, data extraction and signature validation.

This installation package is a digital typesetting software suitable for digital inkjet printing factories. The typesetting effect is 4 pages per printed sheet, and the binding methods are: lockstitch, wireless, and saddle stitching. The author of this software has been engaged in S&D for many years, aiming to provide more professional information solutions for factories. If you have any questions about IT, you can contact me through visualproc@hotmail.com.

JPDF Tools is a GUI java program built on the JPDF Export library. Its main aim is to create pdf files by inserting texts, images or tables. Users can also merge PDF files, split PDF files, merge images into PDF files and soon convert from and to PDF files.