I've been looking around the interwebs for a while now for a PDF parser that actually works on android. I've tried quiet a few java libraries already but they all seem to crash when running on Android.
Can anyone that has successfully parsed PDFs in Android please recommend a library to use?
Technoracle Advanced Systems
is rumoured to be building something like this for displaying PDF forms on mobile. I saw a demo about 2 months ago and it appears they can parse PDF forms and render them onAndroid
,iOS
,Windows Mobile
et al on the fly. Not sure if it is open source or not.One of the best Java library to work with PDF is iText, and I see there is its clone to work under Androind - iText PDF For Android, it unsupports some Classes/Methods (but I've found no list of such). If no other options will be suggested, then probably worth to try that one.
UPDATE: Qoppa Software is working on Androind PDF Solution, probably it won't be free, but they look for use cases, so you can contact them and ask about status and any other information.
I've found that information reading related discussion here, maybe information there will be interesting for you too.
To use simple PDF parser without Format then one can try for PDFBox.zip.. http://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html#pdfbox