Apache POI VS Apache PDFBox

Compare Apache POI vs Apache PDFBox and see what are their differences.

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Apache POI Apache PDFBox
- 26
1,835 2,385
1.4% 2.0%
9.5 9.7
1 day ago about 12 hours ago
Java Java
- Apache License 2.0
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Apache POI

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

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

Apache PDFBox

Posts with mentions or reviews of Apache PDFBox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Apache POI and Apache PDFBox you can also consider the following projects:

docx4j - JAXB-based Java library for Word docx, Powerpoint pptx, and Excel xlsx files

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

fastexcel - Generate and read big Excel files quickly

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.

documents4j - documents4j is a Java library for converting documents into another document format

Apache FOP - Apache XML Graphics FOP

easyexcel - 快速、简洁、解决大文件内存溢出的java处理Excel工具

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

ExcelUtil - Excel utility for Java to read and write data in declarative way.

Dynamic Jasper - Dynamic Reports using Jasper Reports

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)!

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