I am currently looking for a solution to populate a PDF file from the java code, Is there any APi for that, I googled it and found JustformsPDF does the trick, but it works only for some pdf and not all + its a old API without recent developments/support.
Basically I have an existing PDF (and do not want to build it) I just need to populate my java data inside that pdf.
any suggestions ?
These two should be able to do the job (these are the ones I know, there may be more):
Apache PDFBox
iText
You can use our product PDFOne (for Java). It has a document component that can also fill form fields in existing PDF documents. Viewer and printer components are also available.
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In my current java/springboot project, I need to create a PDF dynamicaly containing paragraphs, images and tables.
And I also need to add the table of content of this document.
I'm wondering if there is a way to automatically generate this table of contents using either openPdf or pdfBox.
I noticed that it is possible to do so using IText, but it is not free...
Thanks in advance for your help.
You can use OpenPDF for this: https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF
Also see Flying Saucer: https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer
Actually neither openPdf nor pdfBox provide a way to automatically generate table of contents :-(
iText provide us with such functionality, but it is under AGPL licence so cannot be used in my case...
For the time being, I will try acheive my needs using apache POI then convert the generated docx to pdf using opensagres/xdocreport (see: Trying to make simple PDF document with Apache poi)
I am using a Spring Boot application and I need to dynamically populate the blanks in an existing PDF using the values from the database. I have attached the image of the PDF for your reference.
I want to know the best practice to do so. Please guide me.
Image of the PDF which I want to dynamically populate
I have used now Itext version 7. Where i have created the exact replica of the existing PDF using Itext table cells.
When you are writing the generation code itself in JAVA then there is no problem in mapping the data into the same.
I'm creating an Java application for self-employed workers. In this application, the self-employed workers can keep track of hours worked on different projects. Storing hours worked on different projects is now working. I store it in a MySQL database. Next step is to use this data and create invoices. The first option I want to work on is creating an invoice in PDF format. Could you suggest an approach?
One approach is generate an XML document and use that to generate the PDF document. Possible with a template containing a pre-formatted invoice. But how?
Another approach may be to generate a PDF using pure PDFBox. You can use a background image as a template and then overlay it with details that you retrieve from your DB.
You can use Apache FOP to generate a pdf from a xml using xsl transformations
You can use iText library for creating pdf. Its open source and easy to use with Java. Also the documentation provided by iText team is very good for starting any PDF generation project.
I have the need to create some pdf through java code, pdf templates are fixed and are very complex too. Each pdf represents a module and I have to fill it with informations I get from other sources in my application and finally create the complete pdf.
So, is there a library which, given a pdf, scans it and creats some java code which will eventually create it back? This way once I get the pdf template in java code I just have to edit it adding my informations and create it back.
You can check these 2 link it's have all information regarding PDF CRUD operation.
How to read PDF files using Java?
http://mrbool.com/how-to-create-write-and-read-pdf-files-using-pdfone-and-java/27058
I have used with success iText http://itextpdf.com/ for various tasks involving creating, parsing and modifying pdf files. Please not that this one is not free for commercial use and the pricing isn't cheap either.
However, your question is a possible duplicate of the folowing one, so be sure to check the answers there:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6118635/what-is-the-best-pdf-open-source-library-for-java
itext is one of best approach for your need..
itext API'S
well i have been looking for a java based PDF solutions...we dont have a clean way i guess-still.. all solutions are primitive and kind of workarounds... No easy solution for this requirement -
1. Designing a PDF template using a IDE (eg. Livecycle designer ..which is not free)
2. Then at runtime using java, populate data into this PDF template...either using xml or other datasources...
such a simple requirement and NONE has a good "open-source and free" solution yet ! Is anyone aware of any ? I have been searching for since 3-4 years now..for a clean way out...
Eclipse BIRT comes close.. but does not handle Barcode elements ..OOB.
Jasper - ireport is also good but that tool does not have a table concept and is kind of annoying ! Also barcode support is not good.
XSL-FO has not free IDE for design .
Looking for a better answer .. got one ?
If it's a "simple requirement", you could create a report designer around iText and release it as FOSS yourself.
What are your key requirements? Does your input have to be a PDF? If so, you'll be probably working uphill for a long time still. Obviously you want to inject data and output a PDF.
If your templates can be something other than PDF, you could try using the OpenOffice API to get OpenOffice to do manipulate documents and produce a PDF. JODReports or Docmosis would be better ways of interacting with OpenOffice and Docmosis allows you to treat documents (doc and odt) as templates.
You can create a PDF file with AcroField through iText API AcroField values can be populated.
Note: Using OpenOffice you can create PDF document with FormFields.
http://blog.rubypdf.com/2007/08/01/freely-fill-pdf-form-with-the-help-of-itext-or-itextsharp/
You could use OpenOffice's UNO API. It looks rather heavyweight but at least you get something full-featured.
Have a look at XDocReport. You create your templates in word .docx or OpenOffice .odt files, then turn them into populated PDF files with Java code.