OpenPDF VS iText

Compare OpenPDF vs iText and see what are their differences.

OpenPDF

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. We welcome contributions from other developers. Please feel free to submit pull-requests and bugreports to this GitHub repository. (by LibrePDF)

iText

[DEPRECATED] Core Java Library + PDF/A, xtra and XML Worker. Only security fixes will be added — please use iText 7 (by itext)
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OpenPDF iText
14 3
3,233 1,558
5.7% 0.5%
9.4 0.0
6 days ago 5 months ago
Java Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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OpenPDF

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenPDF. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-11.

iText

Posts with mentions or reviews of iText. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.
  • PDF rendering server-side using HTML 5 + CSS 3
    5 projects | /r/java | 11 Dec 2023
    Are you looking for a way to render PDF's or produce them? If you want to produce PDF's, I've used https://pdfbox.apache.org/ successfully as well as https://itextpdf.com/ (potentially costs money).
  • How do i convert html file to pdf file using java(fx)?
    3 projects | /r/JavaFX | 30 Dec 2022
    Not really a JavaFX question as JavaFX is a UI framework. Your question is therefore just related to Java. To answer that I've seen a similar feature from IText (https://itextpdf.com) or OpenPDF (https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF) as an open source alternative. Maybe take a look at those for a start and check if they provide you what you're looking for.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OpenPDF and iText you can also consider the following projects:

Apache PDFBox - Mirror of Apache PDFBox

flyingsaucer - XML/XHTML and CSS 2.1 renderer in pure Java

Apache FOP - Apache XML Graphics FOP

Open HTML to PDF - An HTML to PDF library for the JVM. Based on Flying Saucer and Apache PDF-BOX 2. With SVG image support. Now also with accessible PDF support (WCAG, Section 508, PDF/UA)!

Dynamic Jasper - Dynamic Reports using Jasper Reports

itext-java - iText for Java represents the next level of SDKs for developers that want to take advantage of the benefits PDF can bring. Equipped with a better document engine, high and low-level programming capabilities and the ability to create, edit and enhance PDF documents, iText can be a boon to nearly every workflow.

boxable - Boxable is a library that can be used to easily create tables in pdf documents.

Tabula - Extract tables from PDF files