DocumentBurster

DocumentBurster is a report distribution software which can burst reports such as payslips, invoices or statements in order to break up and distribute (by email, web, file share, etc.) relevant parts to each of your employees, customers or partners.

DocumentBurster is a report distribution software which works with any reporting software including Crystal Reports, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, IBM Cognos, Oracle Hyperion and QlikView.

Using DocumentBurster it is easy to integrate report distribution and report bursting capabilities into existing in-house built legacy software or with systems like SAP ERP, Oracle Applications, Sage, Microsoft Dynamics, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, MYOB or QuickBooks accounting software.

 

Features

• Automate high-volume document delivery to customers, vendors, employees and prospects.
• Split reports and documents into personalized PDF files and e-mail them securely and reliably.
• It has out of the box delivery targets like email and ftp. Email is referring to any SMTP compatible server including gmail and yahoo.
• It has command line support so it is easy to automate the bursting of reports.

http://www.pdfburst.com/

Apache PDFBox

Apache PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. Apache PDFBox also includes several command line utilities.

Features

• PDF to text extraction
• Merge PDF Documents
• PDF Document Encryption/Decryption
• Lucene Search Engine Integration
• Fill in form data FDF and XFDF
• Create a PDF from a text file
• Create images from PDF pages
• Print a PDF

http://pdfbox.apache.org/

Apache FOP

Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is a print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) and an output independent formatter. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object (FO) tree and renders the resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently supported include PDF, PS, PCL, AFP, XML (area tree representation), Print, AWT and PNG, and to a lesser extent, RTF and TXT. The primary output target is PDF.

http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/

iText PDF

iText is a library that allows you to generate PDF files on the fly.

iText is an ideal library for developers looking to enhance web- and other applications with dynamic PDF document generation and/or manipulation. iText is not an end-user tool. Typically you won't use it on your Desktop as you would use Acrobat or any other PDF application. Rather, you'll build iText into your own applications so that you can automate the PDF creation and manipulation process.

You can use iText to:

• Serve PDF to a browser
• Generate dynamic documents from XML files or databases
• Use PDF's many interactive features
• Add bookmarks, page numbers, watermarks, etc.
• Split, concatenate, and manipulate PDF pages
• Automate filling out of PDF forms
• Add digital signatures to a PDF file
• And much more...

www.itextpdf.com

pdftk

If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. Keep one in the top drawer of your desktop and use it to:

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  Merge PDF Documents
  
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  Split PDF Pages into a New Document
  
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  Rotate PDF Pages or Documents
  
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  Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required)
  
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  Encrypt Output as Desired
  
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  Fill PDF Forms with FDF Data or XFDF Data and/or Flatten Forms
  
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  Apply a Background Watermark or a Foreground Stamp
  
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  Report on PDF Metrics such as Metadata, Bookmarks, and Page Labels
  
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  Update PDF Metadata
  
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  Attach Files to PDF Pages or the PDF Document
  
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  Unpack PDF Attachments
  
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  Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages
  
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  Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams
  
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  Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible)
  

Pdftk allows you to manipulate PDF easily and freely. It does not require Acrobat, and it runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Solaris.

http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/index.html

PDFsam

pdfsam is an open source tool (GPL license) designed to handle pdf files. It’s released in 2 versions, basic and enhanced.

Requirements:

pdfsam branch 1: Java Virtual Machine 1.4.2 or higher
pdfsam branch 2: Java Virtual Machine 1.6 or higher

pdfsam basic:

A simple tool designed to split and merge pdf files. With it’s simple and intuitive interface you can:

• split your pdf documents (into chapters, single pages, etc.).
• merge many pdf documents or subsections of them.
• extract sections of your document into a single pdf document.
• mix alternate pages taken from two pdf documents in straight or reverse order into a single document.
• rotate pages of the selected pdf documents.
• visually reorder pages of a selected pdf document.
• visually compose a document dragging pages from selected pdf documents.
• save and load your environment to automatize your recurrent jobs.
• manage pdfsam settings and set an environment to load at start up.

pdfsam enhanced:

This is the enhanced version of pdfsam. In this version you’ll find all the basic features plus:

• encrypt your pdf files (RC40 bits, RC128 bits, AES128 bits) and set permissions on them.
• add a pdf frontpage or an addendum (or both) to your pdf documents.
• decrypt pdf documents.
• extract attachments from your pdf documents.
• set viewer options to a document to tell the viewer application how should open the document.
• set the metadata of a document (author, title, subject and keywords).

http://www.pdfsam.org/

PDF Renderer

The PDF Renderer is all Java library which renders PDF documents to the screen using Java2D. Typically this means drawing into a Swing panel, but it could also draw to other Graphics2D implementations.

http://java.net/projects/pdf-renderer

PDF Clown

PDF Clown is a Java/.NET library for manipulating PDF files, with multiple abstraction layers to satisfy different programming styles: from the lower level (PDF object model) to the higher (PDF document structure and content streaming).

http://clown.stefanochizzolini.it/

PJX

PJX is a general purpose PDF programming library for Java; with support for reading, combining, manipulating, and writing PDF documents.

http://www.etymon.com/epub.html

JPedal

JPedal is an application for viewing and printing of pdf files. Features of JPedal:

* JPedal supports a wide variety of different font technologies.
* Jpedal supports the following colour spaces: DeviceRGB, CalRGB, DeviceGRAY, CalGRAY, ICC, indexed, DeviceCMYK and DeviceN.
* Jpedal also reads and displays raw tiff, jpg and gif file formats.
* Text can be extracted from an entire document, a single page, from within page co-ordinates or from tables. Font information and metadata can also be extracted.
* JPedal can extract any image from a pdf with a choice of output options.
* View, edit, print and extract content from interactive FDF forms.
* JPedal includes an interactive search function that allows you to search either the current page or the entire pdf document for occurrences of a word or a phrase.

http://www.jpedal.org/

PDFjet - Open Source Edition

A library for dynamic generation of PDF documents from Java and .NET.
Create PDF documents and reports with just a few lines of Java or C# code.

http://pdfjet.com/index.html

gnujpdf

gnujpdf is a Java package (gnu.jpdf.*) licensed under the LGPL. It provides a simple API to create pdf files and print using subclasses of java.awt.Graphics and java.awt.PrintJob. The PDF classes write to an OutputStream in pdf format instead of a typical Graphics object, but the method calls are the same as they would be in any Applet or Application drawing to a canvas.

http://gnujpdf.sourceforge.net/

jPod

jPod is a mature PDF manipulation and rendering library. It supports COS and PD level manipulation of PDF documents, AFM and TrueTypes fonts, incremental writing of files, and parsing of files that slightly deviate from the specification.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpodlib/