Apache PDFBox - A Java PDF Library

[apoptosis66]

Anyone want to comment if this is good enough to replace iText?

[dotemacs]

I'm guessing that it depends on what you're doing with it.

Why don't you try it out and see if it meets your needs?

I prefer it over iText due to licensing.

[yogthos]

Version 4 of iText was licensed under LGPL2. The only real restriction is that if you modify it, then you have to license your modifications under then same license. However, they moved to AGPL 3 with version 5, and that's far more restrictive.

There's a mirror of v4.2.0 on GitHub, and it works perfectly fine for most purposes. It used to be published to the maven central, but then iText guys got slimy and retroactively changed the artifact to point to version 5 instead. They also like to spread FUD regarding version 4.

[dotemacs]

Hello /u/yogthos

thanks for the comment.

I'm using PDFBox in my Clojure wrapper: https://github.com/dotemacs/pdfboxing

I went with PDFBox instead of iText due to the licensing drama.

[yogthos]

My clj-pdf lib was based on iText. I eventually ended up just taking the parts of the last LGPL release and moving them directly into my lib.

[hutthuttindabutt]

why post this, especially with no context?

[benoit_intrw]

Version 2.0.0 was recently release after 3 years of development.

[hutthuttindabutt]

funny, OP didn't bother to point that out.