G2 Vendor Directory

Apache PDFBox

by The Apache Software Foundation

12

Reviews

4.3

Star rating

#67

Rank in Document Generation

Pros and cons

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    Cons

      Traffic & LLM citations

      Monthly G2.com page views and citations by AI answer engines for Apache PDFBox.

      Page views and citations · Apache PDFBox

      Source: G2 review data

      Losing to

      Based on reviewers of other products who said they switched from Apache PDFBox.

      1

      iText by Apryse

      1 switched
      2

      IronPDF

      1 switched

      Key stats

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      Small Business

      1

      Adoption by company size

      SegmentShare of reviews
      Small Business54.5%
      Mid-Market27.3%
      Enterprise18.2%

      Quarterly history

      QuarterReviewsStar rating

      Satisfaction ratings

      Ease of Use9.1
      Ease of Setup10.0
      Quality of Support8.3
      Meets Requirements9.3

      What reviewers say

      If other command line tools like pdftk or exiftools arent' enough, take a look at this

      4.5

      “If Java is something you are used to give it a try. It's fairly robust and easy to incorporate into website or stand-alone apps.”

      Linux Driver Validation Lead

      Easy PDF

      5.0

      “So easy to use especially with JAVA files. Makes editing super easy. Runs extremely smooth as well.”

      Brick Specialist

      Great way to work with PDFs

      5.0

      “I like that I can manipulate existing PDF files whereas before, I could only read them.”

      Teacher