
- #JAVA PDF TO TEXT CONVERTER HOW TO#
- #JAVA PDF TO TEXT CONVERTER INSTALL#
.zip : samples of conversion docx to PDF/HTML with JODConverter. You can download samples of docx/odt converters explained in this article : Goal of this article is to introduce those 3 frameworks converters and share my skills about odt and docx converters to PDF. I don’t want to say « XDocReport is the best » and I don’t want to have some offence with JODConverter, docx4j, FOP guys. If you want to compare result of conversion, performance, etc of docx4j and XDocReport quickly, you can play with our live demo which provides a JAX-RS REST converter service.īefore starting to read this article, I would like to apologize me with my bad English. In this article I will introduce those 3 Java frameworks converters and I will compare it to give Pros/Cons for each framework and try to be more frankly because I’m one of XDocReport developer. #JAVA PDF TO TEXT CONVERTER INSTALL#
easy to install: no need to install OpenOffice/LibreOffice, MS Word on the server to manage converter. Using streaming instead of File, avoids some problems (hard disk is not used, no need to have write right on the hard disk) streaming: use InputStream/OutputStream instead of File. less memory intensive to avoid OutOfMemory problem. fast : the converter must be the more fast. best renderer : the converter must not loose some formatting information. Here criteria that I think which are important for converters : odt converters which works with ODFDOM and iText 2.3.7 for PDF. docx converters which works with Apache POI XWPF and iText 2.3.7 for PDF.
docx4j uses JAXB to create the in-memory object representation. It is similar to Microsoft’s OpenXML SDK, but for Java. docx4j: docx4j is a Java library for creating and manipulating Microsoft Open XML (Word docx, Powerpoint pptx, and Excel xlsx) files.It can be used as a Java library, a command line tool, or a web application. Supported formats include OpenDocument, PDF, RTF, HTML, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Flash. JODConverter : JODConverter automates conversions between office document formats using or LibreOffice.Here some open source product which manages docx/odt to pdf/html converters :
I will not speak about them in this article. To be honest with you, I have not tried those solution because it’s not free. Docmosis which manages docx and odt converters.Aspose.Words for Java which manages only docx converter.Here some paid product which manages docx/odt to pdf/html converters : So I decided to write an article about this topic to enumerate the Java (open source) frameworks which manages that.
#JAVA PDF TO TEXT CONVERTER HOW TO#
How to convert docx/odt to pdf/html with Java? This question comes up all the time in any forum like stackoverflow.