PDF Library for Android - PDFBox?

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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.

What do you wan't to do is creating pdf or just showing pdf ? — PedroAGSantos, May 10 '11 at 15:53
PDFBox is not suitable http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8980668/how-to-add-pdfbox-to-an-android-project/8997074#8997074 — sherpya, Jan 25 '12 at 02:11
PDFTron released an android library, it's superb but not its not free. — Dean Wild, Feb 03 '12 at 18:56

score 12 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

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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

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answered May 10 '11 at 16:23

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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. – Marcos Vasconcelos May 19 '11 at 22:50
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iText has a commercial Android licence - http://www.itextpdf.com/terms-of-use/ – scottyab Aug 12 '11 at 15:00
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From iText support staff -- iText is a PDF creator and not a viewer. – Theo Dec 09 '11 at 06:38
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Page not found for the second refered link – Shailendra Madda Apr 23 '15 at 13:21

user3892 · Answer 2 · 2014-05-09T11:31:36.597

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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.

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why did this get a -1? – Secret Squirrel May 08 '14 at 14:39

Marcos Vasconcelos · Answer 3 · 2015-07-15T13:15:04.857

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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.

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score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 26 '13 at 11:09

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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.

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Nice, i'll take a look on that – Marcos Vasconcelos Jun 28 '13 at 20:11

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 09 '12 at 22:05

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

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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. – Marcos Vasconcelos Mar 15 '12 at 17:29

score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 13 '11 at 06:55

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Qoppa have some Android libraries - have you had a look at them?

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I didn't find anything for Android on their website – Marcos Vasconcelos Sep 13 '11 at 14:46
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http://www.qoppa.com/android/pdfsdk/ – Arnaud May 26 '12 at 20:55

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