# Java PDF Generation Libraries

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## Results

- [frooodle/stirling-pdf](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/frooodle-stirling-pdf.md) (81,168 ⭐) — Stirling-PDF is a web-based PDF management suite used for editing, merging, splitting, and converting PDF documents. It functions as a self-hosted document manager, providing a centralized interface for users to manipulate files on a private server.

The system features a workflow automation engine that allows for the creation of processing pipelines to handle large volumes of documents without writing custom code. It also includes an optical character recognition tool to convert scanned PDFs into searchable and editable text.

Access is managed through single sign-on integration and OIDC comp
- [diegomura/react-pdf](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/diegomura-react-pdf.md) (16,403 ⭐) — This library provides a rendering engine that translates declarative component trees into PDF files. It enables the construction of complex document structures using a component-based architecture, allowing developers to define layout, styling, and content programmatically. The system operates across both browser and server-side environments, offering a unified interface for generating structured documents.

The project distinguishes itself through a sophisticated layout and rendering pipeline that handles the complexities of document creation. It utilizes a flexbox-based engine for element po
- [akullpp/awesome-java](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/akullpp-awesome-java.md) (48,240 ⭐) — This project is a comprehensive, community-driven directory of software resources, libraries, and frameworks for the Java programming language. It serves as a centralized knowledge base designed to help developers discover tools and industry-standard solutions for building and maintaining software applications.

The repository distinguishes itself through a hierarchical taxonomy that organizes a vast array of technical components into a structured, navigable tree. By relying on distributed peer contributions, the index remains a living resource that reflects current community-recommended pract
- [microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/microsoft-generative-ai-for-beginners.md) (112,045 ⭐) — This project is a comprehensive, open-source educational curriculum designed to guide developers through the mastery of generative artificial intelligence. It provides a structured learning path that covers foundational concepts, prompt engineering, and the practical application of large language models. The repository serves as a central hub for skill acquisition, offering sequential modules that progress from basic model mechanics to advanced architectural patterns.

The curriculum distinguishes itself by focusing on the end-to-end lifecycle of intelligent software, including the implementat
- [jonaslejon/malicious-pdf](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/jonaslejon-malicious-pdf.md) (4,070 ⭐) — This project is a set of specialized utilities for generating malformed documents, obfuscating payloads, and crafting specific attack vectors to evaluate the resilience of security scanners. It functions as a PDF fuzzing framework and security testing tool designed to create PDF files with embedded payloads for verifying how document viewers and web applications handle vulnerabilities.

The toolkit provides capabilities for encoding and hiding malicious content to test the detection effectiveness of security scanners. It includes a security payload generator for crafting specific attack vector
- [mozilla/pdf.js](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/mozilla-pdf-js.md) (53,454 ⭐) — This project is a portable document rendering engine designed to parse and display complex document layouts directly within standard web browser environments. It functions as a web-native viewer that enables the presentation of documents without requiring external software or browser plugins.

The engine utilizes a canvas-based rendering layer to map document page data onto standard web drawing surfaces, ensuring high-fidelity visual output. To maintain interface responsiveness, it offloads heavy parsing and object extraction tasks to background threads. The system also employs asynchronous by
- [hakimel/reveal.js](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/hakimel-reveal-js.md) (71,731 ⭐) — This project is a web-native presentation framework that renders slide decks from standard HTML or Markdown. It functions as a declarative slide engine, managing navigation, state persistence, and lifecycle events through a configuration-driven interface. By leveraging standard web technologies, it enables the creation of responsive, browser-based presentations that support complex layouts, nested transitions, and interactive content.

The framework distinguishes itself through a modular, plugin-based architecture that allows developers to extend core functionality using custom hooks and event
- [graphql-java/graphql-java-type-generator](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/graphql-java-graphql-java-type-generator.md) (34 ⭐) — This library will autogenerate GraphQL types for usage in com.graphql-java:graphql-java
- [openapitools/openapi-generator](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/openapitools-openapi-generator.md) (26,412 ⭐) — This project is a command-line tool and template-based scaffolding engine that transforms API interface specifications into functional client libraries and server stubs. By automating the creation of type-safe SDKs and boilerplate code, it bridges the gap between service definitions and implementation, allowing developers to maintain synchronized codebases across many programming languages.

The tool distinguishes itself through a portable execution model that utilizes containerized build isolation to ensure identical output regardless of the host environment. It features a modular, plugin-bas
- [cap-go/capacitor-pdf-generator](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/cap-go-capacitor-pdf-generator.md) (9 ⭐) — Capacitor plugin to generate PDF files from HTML strings or URLs on iOS and Android.
- [seleniumhq/selenium](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/seleniumhq-selenium.md) (34,203 ⭐) — Selenium is a comprehensive browser automation framework that provides a standardized interface for controlling web browsers to perform automated tasks, user interactions, and data extraction. It functions as a cross-browser testing tool, enabling developers to execute identical automation scripts across various browser engines and operating systems to ensure consistent application behavior. By implementing the WebDriver protocol, it maps high-level automation commands to browser-specific drivers using a standardized HTTP-based wire protocol.

The project distinguishes itself through its distr
- [grpc/grpc](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/grpc-grpc.md) (44,891 ⭐) — gRPC is a language-agnostic remote procedure call framework designed for high-performance communication between distributed services. It utilizes a structured interface definition language to generate consistent client stubs and server skeletons, enabling applications to invoke methods on remote servers as if they were local objects. By leveraging the HTTP/2 transport layer, the framework supports efficient binary serialization and multiplexed data exchange across diverse programming environments.

The framework distinguishes itself through its support for flexible communication patterns, incl
- [questpdf/questpdf](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/questpdf-questpdf.md) (14,088 ⭐) — QuestPDF is a C# PDF generation library and layout engine used to create structured documents, reports, and invoices. It utilizes a fluent API and a component-based layout approach to convert code into high-fidelity PDF and XPS files.

The library distinguishes itself with a dedicated layout debugger that provides real-time previews, hot-reload capabilities, and visual boundary tools to map rendered elements back to source code. It also functions as an accessibility tool, providing semantic tagging and navigational aids to ensure documents comply with international accessibility and archival s
- [mbattyani/cl-pdf](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/mbattyani-cl-pdf.md) (126 ⭐) — CL-PDF is a cross-platform Common Lisp library for generating PDF files.
- [protocolbuffers/protobuf](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/protocolbuffers-protobuf.md) (71,359 ⭐) — Protocol Buffers is a language-neutral, platform-agnostic mechanism for serializing structured data. It provides a schema-driven toolchain that compiles declarative data definitions into type-safe source code, enabling consistent communication and strongly typed API contracts across services written in different programming languages.

The project distinguishes itself through a highly efficient binary wire format that utilizes tag-based encoding and variable-width integer compression to minimize payload size and processing overhead. It supports robust evolutionary schema management, allowing d
- [awslabs/java-meme-generator-sample](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/awslabs-java-meme-generator-sample.md) (56 ⭐) — Sample code for a java application that uses Elastic Beanstalk, S3, DynamoDB, and SQS to create a meme generation website and processing pipeline.  For a demonstration of the application in action, see this talk from AWS re:Invent 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeRNErD81VA
- [public-apis/public-apis](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/public-apis-public-apis.md) (441,986 ⭐) — This project is a community-curated directory of REST and GraphQL service endpoints designed to assist developers in discovering and integrating third-party data sources. It functions as a centralized registry where external services are organized by domain to facilitate rapid software prototyping and application development.

The registry relies on a peer-reviewed contribution model, utilizing distributed version control to manage updates and ensure the accuracy of listed endpoints. To maintain high data quality, the project employs schema-based validation for all incoming submissions and com
- [iluwatar/java-design-patterns](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/iluwatar-java-design-patterns.md) (94,123 ⭐) — This repository serves as a comprehensive educational collection of industry-standard software design patterns and architectural principles implemented in Java. It functions as a structured reference for developers to study and apply proven strategies for building maintainable, object-oriented systems.

The project acts as a knowledge base for software engineering, offering a curated set of programming heuristics and best practices. By providing ready-to-use implementations of standard design patterns, it enables developers to address common programming challenges and improve code modularity t
- [parallax/jspdf](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/parallax-jspdf.md) (31,229 ⭐) — jsPDF is a document creation engine designed to generate professional PDF files through a unified programming interface. It functions as a cross-platform graphics library that enables the programmatic assembly of data into structured layouts, supporting both client-side generation within web browsers and server-side rendering in backend environments.

The library utilizes a canvas-based drawing API that translates high-level geometric and text instructions into standardized PDF vector primitives. By employing a cross-platform runtime abstraction, it decouples document generation logic from env
- [coletiv/puppeteer-pdf](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/coletiv-puppeteer-pdf.md) (98 ⭐) — PDF generation wrapper for Elixir using Puppeteer
- [mrrio/jspdf](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/mrrio-jspdf.md) (31,230 ⭐) — jsPDF is a JavaScript PDF generation library and client-side engine that produces documents directly on the user's device. It provides a scriptable interface for creating PDF files within web browsers and other JavaScript runtime environments without requiring a backend server.

The library includes a tool for defining document dimensions, orientation, and measurement units to control page layout. It also functions as a Unicode font integrator, allowing for the embedding of custom font files to support diverse languages and special characters.

Capability areas cover dynamic document automatio
- [gutschilla/elixir-pdf-generator](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/gutschilla-elixir-pdf-generator.md) (343 ⭐) — Create PDFs with wkhtmltopdf or puppeteer/chromium from Elixir.
- [expo/expo](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/expo-expo.md) (50,111 ⭐) — Expo is a universal mobile framework designed to build native iOS and Android applications from a single codebase using web-standard technologies. It provides a comprehensive development environment that includes a unified runtime for testing, cloud-based infrastructure for compiling and signing native binaries, and automated tools for managing the entire mobile release lifecycle, including app store submission.

The framework distinguishes itself through a plugin-based native configuration engine that programmatically modifies project files, allowing developers to integrate native modules wit
- [galkahana/pdf-writer](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/galkahana-pdf-writer.md) (1,010 ⭐) — High performance library for creating, modiyfing and parsing PDF files in C++
- [foliojs/pdfkit](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/foliojs-pdfkit.md) (10,667 ⭐) — pdfkit is a JavaScript PDF generation library used to programmatically create binary PDF documents in Node.js and browser environments. It functions as a vector graphics engine for rendering paths, shapes, gradients, and tiling patterns, and as a tool for producing rich text and tagged documents that follow international accessibility standards for screen reader compatibility.

The library includes a security and encryption utility for applying document encryption and restricting user permissions regarding printing, copying, or editing. It also serves as a form and annotation tool, enabling th
- [janishar/mit-deep-learning-book-pdf](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/janishar-mit-deep-learning-book-pdf.md) (14,142 ⭐) — This project is a digital collection of academic material on deep learning provided as a machine learning educational resource. It delivers the complete textbook and individual chapters in portable document format for offline study and research.

The repository includes electronic publication versions of the textbooks optimized for digital reading devices and e-book readers. It functions as a segmented document repository, providing the text both as a full volume and split into individual chapters to allow for targeted reading.
- [dompdf/dompdf](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/dompdf-dompdf.md) (11,075 ⭐) — Dompdf is a PHP library that functions as a document rendering engine, transforming HTML and CSS markup into portable document files. It operates by parsing web-based layout attributes and visual properties to generate static documents suitable for reports, invoices, or archival purposes.

The library distinguishes itself by integrating a resource-fetching pipeline that retrieves external stylesheets and images to maintain visual fidelity. It also supports the execution of server-side scripts during the document creation process, allowing for the injection of dynamic data and custom logic into
- [tossnet/blazor-pdf](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/tossnet-blazor-pdf.md) (91 ⭐) — Generate ✏ PDF document 📑 with iTextSharp from a Blazor Server App
- [bpampuch/pdfmake](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/bpampuch-pdfmake.md) (12,297 ⭐) — pdfmake is a JavaScript PDF generation library and declarative document engine that transforms structured JavaScript objects into formatted PDF files. It functions as a layout engine capable of producing documents on both the client side within a web browser and on the server side using Node.js.

The library utilizes a declarative approach to translate object-based document definitions into final PDFs. It distinguishes itself through a virtual layout engine that calculates element positions and page breaks and an inheritance-based style system that uses dictionaries to maintain visual consiste
- [anthropics/claude-code](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/anthropics-claude-code.md) (132,728 ⭐) — Anthropic's terminal-native AI coding agent.
- [tcheeric/nostr-java](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/tcheeric-nostr-java.md) (89 ⭐) — A nostr library, written in java, for generating, signing and publishing events.
- [ziadoz/awesome-php](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/ziadoz-awesome-php.md) (32,573 ⭐) — This project is a community-driven directory and knowledge base for the PHP ecosystem. It serves as a comprehensive index of high-quality libraries, frameworks, tools, and educational materials, designed to help developers navigate the landscape and select appropriate solutions for their software projects.

The directory distinguishes itself through a hierarchical taxonomy that organizes vast amounts of technical information into a logical, human-readable structure. By relying on distributed contributions from the developer community, it maintains a current and vetted collection of references
- [neo4j/neo4j](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/neo4j-neo4j.md) (15,928 ⭐) — Neo4j is a native graph database management system designed to store and query highly connected data using a property-graph model. It provides an ACID-compliant transaction engine that ensures data integrity, supported by a distributed cluster architecture that maintains causal consistency across nodes. Users interact with the system through a declarative query language, which allows for complex pattern matching and path traversal without requiring manual traversal logic.

The platform distinguishes itself through its hybrid approach to data retrieval, combining traditional graph-based queries
- [fraserxu/electron-pdf](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/fraserxu-electron-pdf.md) (1,290 ⭐) — 📄 A command line tool to generate PDF from URL, HTML or Markdown files.
- [pcapriotti/optparse-applicative](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/pcapriotti-optparse-applicative.md) (957 ⭐) — optparse-applicative is a haskell library for parsing options on the command line, and providing a powerful [applicative] interface for composing them.
- [pdfcpu/pdfcpu](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/pdfcpu-pdfcpu.md) (8,675 ⭐) — pdfcpu is a Go PDF processing library and command-line interface designed for programmatically manipulating, optimizing, and validating PDF files. It provides a toolkit for document content modification and structural management.

The project distinguishes itself as an optimization tool and layout engine, capable of reducing file sizes and improving loading speeds by streamlining internal structures. It also functions as a security manager, providing password-based encryption, decryption, and digital signature verification.

Its capability surface includes page management for merging, splittin
- [opendataloader-project/opendataloader-pdf](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/opendataloader-project-opendataloader-pdf.md) (25,769 ⭐) — This project is a PDF data extraction tool and document preprocessor designed to convert PDF files into structured formats such as Markdown, JSON, and HTML. It functions as an OCR document parser for scanned files, an accessibility automator for generating PDF/UA compliant metadata, and a loader for AI orchestration frameworks like LangChain.

The software distinguishes itself through specialized handling of complex document elements, including the conversion of mathematical formulas into LaTeX and the generation of natural-language descriptions for charts and images. It utilizes recursive seg
- [emotion-js/emotion](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/emotion-js-emotion.md) (18,017 ⭐) — This project is a styling library and framework designed for component-based architectures, enabling developers to define and manage visual styles directly within JavaScript or TypeScript. It functions as a styling engine that generates unique class names from style definitions, ensuring encapsulated, predictable, and maintainable visual presentation across applications. By integrating with component logic, it allows for the creation of reusable UI elements with styles defined through template literals or object syntax.

The library distinguishes itself through a comprehensive suite of build-t
- [o0morgan0o/gcode-generative-for-processing](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/o0morgan0o-gcode-generative-for-processing.md) (33 ⭐) — Morgan Thibert -- 2019 -- Library for Processing 3
- [keploy/keploy](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/keploy-keploy.md) (17,622 ⭐) — Keploy is an automated testing platform that leverages kernel-level traffic interception to generate and maintain regression test suites for microservices. By capturing live network traffic and system calls via eBPF, the platform automatically creates deterministic test cases and mocks external dependencies without requiring manual code instrumentation. This approach allows developers to validate application behavior and API contracts by replaying production-like traffic in isolated environments.

The platform distinguishes itself through its use of machine learning to perform test maintenance
- [jbarlow83/ocrmypdf](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/jbarlow83-ocrmypdf.md) (33,901 ⭐) — OCRmyPDF is a tool for converting image-based PDF files into machine-readable documents by adding a searchable text layer via optical character recognition. It functions as a multi-language processor capable of detecting and extracting text in over 100 different languages using linguistic data packs.

The software includes a PDF image optimizer to remove image artifacts and correct page skew to improve recognition accuracy. It also provides a converter to transform scanned documents into the PDF/A standard for long-term digital archiving.

The system manages PDF optimization by compressing emb
- [graphql-java/graphql-java-extended-validation](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/graphql-java-graphql-java-extended-validation.md) (137 ⭐) — Validation library for graphql-java input
- [tesseract-ocr/tesseract](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/tesseract-ocr-tesseract.md) (74,751 ⭐) — Tesseract is a neural network-based optical character recognition engine designed to convert scanned images and digital documents into machine-readable, searchable text. It functions as both a command-line utility for automating large-scale digitization workflows and a cross-platform library that can be embedded into desktop, mobile, or server-side applications. By utilizing long short-term memory networks, the engine provides robust text extraction across more than one hundred languages and dozens of scripts.

The project distinguishes itself through a sophisticated document layout analysis f
- [jsonld-java/jsonld-java](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/jsonld-java-jsonld-java.md) (387 ⭐) — JSON-LD implementation for Java
- [redis/go-redis](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/redis-go-redis.md) (22,159 ⭐) — This project is a feature-rich Go client library designed for interacting with Redis. It serves as a comprehensive interface for managing remote data stores, enabling developers to execute standard database commands, handle complex data structures, and perform asynchronous operations within Go applications.

The library distinguishes itself through its support for advanced Redis capabilities, including connection pooling, pipelining, and transactional integrity. It provides specialized primitives for managing distributed clusters, including automated topology updates and request routing to sha
- [graphql-java/graphql-java-extended-scalars](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/graphql-java-graphql-java-extended-scalars.md) (286 ⭐) — A library of extended scalars for graphql-java
- [awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/awesome-selfhosted-awesome-selfhosted.md) (299,516 ⭐) — This project is a community-curated directory of open-source software designed for deployment in private server environments and home labs. It serves as a comprehensive resource for discovering independent, self-hosted alternatives to mainstream cloud services, enabling users to maintain full data ownership and control over their digital infrastructure.

The directory is structured through a hierarchical taxonomy that organizes a vast collection of applications into logical categories, ranging from media management and data analytics to private communication and team productivity tools. It dis
- [pymupdf/pymupdf](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/pymupdf-pymupdf.md) (9,086 ⭐) — PyMuPDF is a comprehensive PDF manipulation library and document analysis tool. It serves as a text extraction tool, OCR engine, and image converter, providing a programmatic interface to edit, merge, split, and optimize PDF and Office documents.

The project distinguishes itself through high-performance capabilities, including the use of C-bindings for low-level manipulation and parallelized page processing to accelerate workloads. It provides specialized conversion paths, such as transforming PDF content into Markdown for retrieval-augmented generation and large language model pipelines.

It
- [azuread/microsoft-authentication-library-for-js](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/azuread-microsoft-authentication-library-for-js.md) (4,084 ⭐) — Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) for JS
- [grpc/grpc-java](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/grpc-grpc-java.md) (12,032 ⭐) — gRPC Java is a library for building distributed systems that enables client and server applications to interact through remote procedure calls. It uses protocol buffers to define service interfaces and exchange structured data, providing a framework for connecting microservices across different environments.

The framework utilizes an asynchronous networking foundation to manage concurrent connections and relies on a multiplexed binary protocol to facilitate efficient data exchange. It supports pluggable transport interceptors, allowing for the injection of custom logic into the request-respon