PDF Library for Android - PDFBox?

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Solution 1

PDF read/writing is a big problem for Android. A quick search on Stackoverflow will reveal many developers looking for solutions. So far, the most popular solution is to use a webview and use the google docs engine to render the PDF

A second solution, which is a little less 'hacky' is to use one of these android pdf libraries

Solution 2

If you are an indie developer, you can try PlugPDF. They offer their Android PDF library for free for independent developers and for personal use. http://plugpdf.com/

Disclaimer: I am the Founder & CEO at ePapyrus Inc. which runs plugpdf.com.

Solution 3

There is a relative new library http://www.androidpdf.mobi/. It has a one time licence per Android Package Name and worked ok for us, especially for the price.

Solution 4

RadaePDF also does offer a Android PDF rendering engine.

http://mupdf.com/ released a Android library to PDF reading & writing, it's really very good.

It's a GPL open-source project, but they do commercial licenses.

Solution 5

It is a bit expensive but I believe that Adobe Mobile SDK is your product (not open source though)

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Updated on July 16, 2020

Comments

Marcos Vasconcelos almost 4 years

Wich libraries exists to use to draw PDF files on Android?

I found PDFBox, that is a JSE Library, and want to know if somehow it can be used to draw the PDFs on Android.

I know Android converts Standard bytecodes into Dalvik Bytecodes, but how it will convert classes like BufferedImage that the framework can convert PDF Files into?

Any suggestion is helpfully, even for paid libraries.
Marcos Vasconcelos almost 13 years

All these solutions are licensed under GPL, and I need it for commercial use. And I need to have control over the document, so I can't use the google docs engine.
Petr Prazak over 12 years

iText has a commercial Android licence - itextpdf.com/terms-of-use
Marcos Vasconcelos over 12 years

I didn't find anything for Android on their website
Theo over 12 years

From iText support staff -- iText is a PDF creator and not a viewer.
Marcos Vasconcelos about 12 years

I already used Adobe Reader Mobile SDK (RMSDK) at one project, but it's license is a bit expensive to afford general uses on other projects.
Arnaud almost 12 years

qoppa.com/android/pdfsdk
Marcos Vasconcelos almost 11 years

Nice, i'll take a look on that
Secret Squirrel almost 10 years

why did this get a -1?
Shailendra Madda about 9 years

Page not found for the second refered link