NPOI VS PureExcel

Compare NPOI vs PureExcel and see what are their differences.

NPOI

a .NET library that can read/write Office formats without Microsoft Office installed. No COM+, no interop. (by nissl-lab)

PureExcel

A lightweight excel parser (by srxqds)
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NPOI PureExcel
16 -
5,506 3
1.7% -
9.0 0.0
1 day ago over 7 years ago
C# C#
Apache License 2.0 -
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NPOI

Posts with mentions or reviews of NPOI. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-14.

PureExcel

Posts with mentions or reviews of PureExcel. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning PureExcel yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing NPOI and PureExcel you can also consider the following projects:

EPPlus

ClosedXML - ClosedXML is a .NET library for reading, manipulating and writing Excel 2007+ (.xlsx, .xlsm) files. It aims to provide an intuitive and user-friendly interface to dealing with the underlying OpenXML API.

Open XML SDK - Open XML SDK by Microsoft

ExcelDataReader - Lightweight and fast library written in C# for reading Microsoft Excel files

DocX - Fast and easy to use .NET library that creates or modifies Microsoft Word files without installing Word.

MiniExcel - Fast, Low-Memory, Easy Excel .NET helper to import/export/template spreadsheet (support Linux, Mac)

Report-From-DocX-HTML-To-PDF-Converter - .NET Core library to create custom reports based on Word docx or HTML documents and convert to PDF

BookFx - Composing Excel spreadsheets based on a tree of nested components like the HTML DOM.