iText VS flyingsaucer

Compare iText vs flyingsaucer and see what are their differences.

iText

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

flyingsaucer

XML/XHTML and CSS 2.1 renderer in pure Java (by flyingsaucerproject)
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iText flyingsaucer
3 6
1,558 1,906
0.5% 1.0%
0.0 9.6
5 months ago 2 days ago
Java Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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.

flyingsaucer

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

What are some alternatives?

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

Apache PDFBox - Mirror of Apache PDFBox

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.

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

Konik - A library to create, read and validate ZUGFeRD compliant invoices. Available for Java and .NET

itext-pdfsweep-java - Remove content from your digital documents irretrievably instead of just covering it up. Redact text, images, parts of images or drawings for complete confidentiality. iText pdfSweep complies with GDPR for data redaction.