Apache PDFBox vs PDFium
Apache PDFBox
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| Figure | Apache PDFBox | PDFium |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · PDF SDKs | 8.2 (#7) | 7.8 (#19) |
| Purpose | Apache PDFBox is an open-source Java tool for creating and manipulating PDF documents and extracting content from them. | PDFium is a C++ implementation of the PDF specification that can parse PDF content and render pages. |
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