JPedal Java PDF Library vs. PDF-XChange Editor

JPedal is a pure Java PDF library for extracting, manipulating, printing, rendering and viewing PDF files inside Java applications. It ships as a single JAR with no JNI, no native binaries and no third-party dependencies, and runs on any JVM (Java 17 and above), on-premises or in the cloud. IDRsolutions has developed it continuously since 1999, so it copes with malformed and legacy PDFs that break less mature libraries. Most integrations take two or three lines of code.

Our business began in 1997 as ‘Tracker Software Products Ltd’ to develop document management and imaging-related software. These products included TIFF and PDF digital conversion utilities that enabled the conversion of many document formats to TIFF and PDF for subsequent archiving within document management products. These standalone conversion applications quickly proved their worth and we made the decision to concentrate on the development of these utilities for the end-user and third-party software developer markets.