Apache PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. This library allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. It provides support for adding bookmarks, fonts, text extraction, Encryption, PDF printing and lot more. It has <A HREF="http://pdfbox.apache.org/userguide/dot_net.html">.NET support</A>. 

 Form filling is one of most important feature. It helps to fill in form data FDF and XFDF. It has command line utlities for most of the jobs. For example PDFToImage utility create an image for every page in the PDF document. 
 
 PDF documents could be splitted to multiple documents and also multiple PDF documents could be merged to one. Lucene Search Engine is integrated to do full text search.

Apache PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. This library allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. It provides support for adding bookmarks, fonts, text extraction, Encryption, PDF printing and lot more.

PDFBox - Java PDF library

iText is one of the popular and widely used PDF library. It is used to generate PDF documents dynamically. Mostly web developers will love it to generate PDF documents and reports based on data from an XML file or a database and serves it to the browser. It has support of adding bookmarks, watermarks, Encryption, Form filling and lot more. 

 iText helps to convert PDF to text and it is also capable to generate PDF from XML and HTML. It could digitally sign the document.

iText is one of the popular and widely used PDF library. It is used to generate PDF documents dynamically. Mostly web developers will love it to generate PDF documents and reports based on data from an XML file or a database and serves it to the browser. It has support of adding bookmarks, watermarks, Encryption, Form filling and lot more.

iText - Java PDF library

PDFClown is a PDF library helps to generate, read and edit PDF. It helps to split and merge the PDF documents. It has support to add Images, Fonts, Barcodes, Bookmarks, Annotations, Form fields like check box, button, list box etc, Compression, text extraction. It has .NET version developed for mono. 
 
 Source forge: <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/clown/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/clown/</A>

PDFClown is a PDF library helps to generate, read and edit PDF. It helps to split and merge the PDF documents. It has support to add Images, Fonts, Barcodes, Bookmarks, Annotations, Form fields like checkbox, button, list box etc, Compression, text extraction.

PDFClown - PDF library

PDFsam basic is a simple, platform independent software designed to split, merge and rotate pdf files. It can split your pdf documents (into chapters, single pages, etc.). It can merge many pdf documents or subsections of them. It helps to visually reorder pages of a selected pdf document.

PDFSam - PDF Split and Merge

OpenPDF is a Java library for creating and editing PDF files. OpenPDF is the LGPL/MPL open source successor of iText, and is based on a fork, of a fork, of iText 4 svn tag. 

OpenPDF - Java library for PDF files

PDF Renderer is a Java library which renders PDF documents to the screen using Java2D in to swing panel. It is capable to view the PDF, Converts it to PNG, View PDF in to 3D scene, Print preview support. It does not support to create or manipulate the PDF.

PDF Renderer - renders PDF documents to the screen

jPod is a PDF manipulating and rendering framework. It provides functionality to read, verify the document against the PDF specification. It also provides content stream and rendering framework. It could able to create new document and do incremental updates. 

 <A HREF="http://opensource.intarsys.de/home/en/index.php?n=JPodRenderer.HomePage" target="_blank">jPod Renderer</A>, a complete rendering implementation for AWT and SWT with lot of support for platform specific tasks. It has pluggable image conversion and font handling support.

jPod is a PDF manipulating and rendering framework. It provides functionality to read, verify the document against the PDF specification. It also provides content stream and rendering framework. It could able to create new document and do incremental updates.

jPod - PDF manipulating and rendering framework

FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is the world's first print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) and the world's first output independent formatter. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object (FO) tree and renders the resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently supported include PDF, PCL, PS, SVG, XML (area tree representation), Print, AWT, MIF and TXT. The primary output target is PDF.

Apache FOP - The Apache Foundation's XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) implementation.

Flying Saucer takes XML or XHTML and applies CSS 2.1-compliant stylesheets to it, in order to render to PDF (via iText), images, and on-screen using Swing or SWT. The library implements (basically) the entirety of CSS 2.1 and aims to be fully compliant with the W3C specification; it includes a small handful of CSS 3 features. 



Flying Saucer - XML/XHTML and CSS 2.1 renderer in pure Java

PDFjet is a high performance PDF library for Java and .NET. It has support of drawing points, lines, box, polygons etc. It supports unicode text, embedding images, embedding hyperlinks and lot more. Its simple to use table class helps to generate flexible reports. 

 It is compatible with the Google App Engine. Its open source edition has very less feature whereas Commercial edition has lot more.

PDFjet is a high performance PDF library for Java and .NET. It has support of drawing points, lines, box, polygons etc. It supports unicode text, embedding images, embedding hyperlinks and lot more. Its simple to use table class helps to generate flexible reports.

PDFJet - PDF library for Java and .NET

OrsonPDF is a PDF generation library for the Java(tm) platform that allows you to create content in PDF format using the standard Java2D drawing API (Graphics2D). OrsonPDF is light-weight, fast, and has no dependencies other than the Java runtime (1.6 or later).

OrsonPDF - A fast, lightweight PDF generator for the Java platform

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