OpenPDF vs Tabula

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)

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Tabula

Extract tables from PDF files (by tabulapdf)

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OpenPDF		Tabula
	Project
15	Mentions	6
3,296	Stars	1,733
5.0%	Growth	1.7%
9.4	Activity	0.6
6 days ago	Latest Commit	14 days ago
Java	Language	Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

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.

Security review of this Java library
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2024
FLaNK AI for 11 March 2024
46 projects | dev.to | 11 Mar 2024
OpenPDF 2.0.0 Released
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Feb 2024
OpenPDF 1.3.34 Released
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Dec 2023
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.
Complete guide to open source licenses for developers
13 projects | dev.to | 8 Sep 2022

In addition, the License file may not contain the text of the license directly but information about the licenses under which the project is published or which projects/libraries are included in it. For example OpenPDF.
Convert HTML (with CSS) to PDF using Java?
1 project | /r/webdev | 16 Jun 2022

Open PDF: https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF
pdf opensource software
1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 8 May 2022

OpenPDF is probably your best bet for all of these in one program
Ask HN: Why is the PDF format so inaccessible?
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2022
OpenPDF 1.3.27 released
1 project | /r/java | 20 Mar 2022

Tabula

Posts with mentions or reviews of Tabula. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-06.

Tabula – Extract tables from PDF files
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 8 Jun 2021

1 project | /r/hackernews | 8 Jun 2021

2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jun 2021
Extract tables from PDF files
1 project | /r/java | 7 Jun 2021
Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
264 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 May 2021

tabula-java [0], a library for extracting tables from PDF files. It started as a monolithic webapp written in JRuby, and we later extracted the table detection and segmentation logic into a Java library.
[0] https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula-java
Tabula: Liberate Data From PDF Tables [jRuby]
3 projects | /r/ruby | 7 May 2021

Ties together a Cuba web app, the tabula-java library and lauch4j to provide a platform executable.

What are some alternatives?

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

iText - [DEPRECATED] Core Java Library + PDF/A, xtra and XML Worker. Only security fixes will be added — please use iText 7

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)!

Apache PDFBox - Mirror of Apache PDFBox

vscode-jq - jq LiveView Extension for VS Code

cakephp-swagger-bake - Automatically generate OpenAPI, Swagger, and Redoc documentation from your existing CakePHP code.

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.

intercooler-js - Making AJAX as easy as anchor tags

Dynamic Jasper - Dynamic Reports using Jasper Reports

QR-Code-generator - High-quality QR Code generator library in Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Rust, C++, C.

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

panel - Pterodactyl® is a free, open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. Designed with security in mind, Pterodactyl runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing a beautiful and intuitive UI to end users.