Kris, please don't cross-post if it is not necessary. All developers are expected to be on the users list, too.
I don't think iText and PDFBox do the exactly same thing. Both have different strengths. PDFBox, for example, can display and print PDFs which iText can't. It also has a strong focus on text extraction. But iText, on the other side, is probably stronger when it comes to creating new PDFs. I'm sure there are other details where the two differ. One difference is certainly the license. So you can't really say that PDFBox is duplicating iText functionality. Different projects, different focus, different project rules/philosphy, different licenses. I personally find PDFBox more interesting than iText for what I use it for. But everyone has to find out for himself which is a better fit. And a little healthy competition is never bad. :-) On 22.02.2009 13:00:11 Kristian Jones wrote: > > Hi I am currently looking at toolkits that allow working with pdf > documents in Java and I couldn't help notice that iText seems to do > everything that PDFBox is looking to accomplish. Why are the PDFBox > team looking at duplicating this this functionality? > > Please reply directly I am not subscribed to the mailing lists. > Kris > Jeremias Maerki
