Does anyone know a good pdf library for Java ? My specific requirement is to find co-ordinates of the text in pdf file. If anyone knows, some pointers will be helpful.
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iText PDF - http://itextpdf.com/
Apache FOP - http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/
PDFBox - http://pdfbox.apache.org/
PDF Renderer - https://pdf-renderer.dev.java.net/
thelost
2010-03-24 18:55:50
FOP does not parse PDF's
Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
2010-03-24 18:59:27
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Check out any of these:
(credit/see also: Free java library for converting existing pdf to a pdf/a)
Mark E
2010-03-24 18:56:27
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I've just started looking into Apache's PdfBox for exactly this purpose. It looks like one of their examples, PrintTextLocations.java, is a good starting point for what you're after.
torak
2010-03-24 18:59:59
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Have you tried Big Faceless - http://big.faceless.org/products/pdf/
Daniel
2010-03-26 04:46:09