--- title: Apache PDFBox Reviews meta\_title: 'Apache PDFBox Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 12 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Apache PDFBox works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 12 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Collaboration & Productivity url: https://www.g2.com/categories/collaboration-productivity --- # Apache PDFBox Reviews & Product Details Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [Apache PDFBox Community](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-pdfbox/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Adobe Acrobat](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Adobe Acrobat") Adobe Acrobat 4.5/5(5,326) ](https://www.g2.com/products/adobe-acrobat/reviews) [ ![Wondershare PDFelement](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Wondershare PDFelement") Wondershare PDFelement 4.5/5(1,044) ](https://www.g2.com/products/wondershare-wondershare-pdfelement/reviews) [ ![Docusign CLM](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Docusign CLM") Docusign CLM 4.3/5(507) ](https://www.g2.com/products/docusign-clm/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-pdfbox/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 12 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Jacob H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jacob H.") JH Jacob H. Computer Programmer Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/30/2019 "Innovative library for the general use of PDF" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache PDFBox? The truth is that it is a very useful tool but it is being named relatively now, it is very useful since it is open source therefore anyone can use it and besides that it allows us to operate with PDF files, that is to say , allows us to create, process, print, divide, combine, extract texts, among many other functions, it is worth mentioning that it is a JAVA library and to be used with this programming language, its integration is super simple and fast in the language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache PDFBox? The only negative thing is that it does not have much support or a large community to support it, in addition to technical support is not very good at the time of consulting doubts but outside of that I think a very good option to turn to as a programmer when we want to use functions with PDF. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache PDFBox: I recommend it widely and more because it is open source and its use can be by anyone who wants it, besides that it is a library that in my opinion is super complete and that making the call to their respective elements is not complicated. It is much better than other options that I have used and certainly much better than trying to perform the functions from scratch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache PDFBox solving and how is that benefiting you? The truth is that I have used this library on very specific occasions but I can say that I have not left any complaint, the library is very good and practices for the amount of functions that simplifies you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Media Production](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Media Production") UM Verified User in Media Production Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/12/2019 "Make a PDF document with zero licensing cost" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache PDFBox? Apache PDFBox is free, is less resouce intensive, fast, can be easily integrated to the JAVA code, has lots of examples and is still growing to support newer features. And one thing special you can edit a pdf say remove 10 pages from an existing document by simply writing 2 lines of code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache PDFBox? Not all features are supported. Compared to the paid licensed iText is the best in this category but the cost involved may not be feasible for all small companies who have IT as a supporting area in their business. Also since not everyday we require all advanced feature so PDFbox is pretty good. Its is a little memory intensive where iText stands optimized. So depending upon the business leverage low cost and best solution PDFbox would be my choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache PDFBox: Easy to use, lots of handy examples, free of cost, can be commercially used as well. Easy to integrate in the JAVA projects , maven / gradel etc dependency, continuous improvements are present, styling tables, different borders, report format, colors can be easily added. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache PDFBox solving and how is that benefiting you? Creating PDF documents, reports on the fly , comerical reports to be sent to clients, various UI designs like table etc, editing of PDF by removing unwanted pages or adding / inserting PDF pages as and when required. No licensing headache, several examples and support community on the internet. The major benefit was lowering the cost in reports generation on the fly, easy to use and team found it very comfortable to switch with lots of handy examples. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Josen R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Josen R.") JR Josen R. Business Owner Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/31/2019 "Apache PDFBox is a Great Server Based PDF Manipulation Framework" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache PDFBox? This project is open source and community driven. People have come together to create a truly functional set of utilities to perform common PDF tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache PDFBox? There isn't really anything that I didn't like. As with any tool, it takes time to learn the syntax and practicing write code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache PDFBox solving and how is that benefiting you? I needed to manipulate PDF files on the server and this interface allowed me to do that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering") UM Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/12/2019 "a versatile tool to work with pdf" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Apache PDFBox? is flexible to extract and create pdf, It is also the rendering of the images, and the visualization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache PDFBox? I would say that I do not have the minimum requirements, which are: Java6 or higher. pdfbox fontbox levigo-jbig2-imageio commons-loggin Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache PDFBox: If you want to obtain better visualization of images and have a performance resource use it without a doubt for your work, you must have the minimum for your installation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache PDFBox solving and how is that benefiting you? a quality option to work with pdf files Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![piyush s.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "piyush s.") PS piyush s. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/13/2018 "It's one of the best and well documented API for manipulating PDF documents using java language!! " 4/5 What do you like best about Apache PDFBox? the best thing is that it's an opensource API in java , we just have to download the JAR file and import JPDFBox class to access PDF document from your java program,and it contains all kind of methods that you can think of while working with PDF documents,we can extract text , create PDF , split PDF ,insert image , watch preview of PDF using java language !! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache PDFBox? they release new versions very rarely , sometimes it throws exception although your code is correct!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache PDFBox: If you want to access any PDF document using java then you should use this API for sure , it's rally easy to understand and implement , you can also find different video tutorials for this API!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache PDFBox solving and how is that benefiting you? We created PDF online printing software for different collages in Gujarat in which we used this API for getting some information like page no,Author ID of user and also for generating their bills in PDF!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") CI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/11/2019 "Must have to PDF manipulation in Java" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache PDFBox? Ease of use and API clarity. It is very easy to extract text from PDF to feed it through indexing for example. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache PDFBox? Documentation is very clear but it is not always easy to find samples. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache PDFBox solving and how is that benefiting you? I extract data from invoice to do automatic classification of costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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