Boxable: Java Library to build tables in PDF documents

In my previous Article, I explained about Apache PDF box, an open source library to create, extract data from PDF documents. In this post I am going to explain about boxable API, which is used to buid tables in PDF documents.

Maven dependencies used

<dependencies>
 <dependency>
  <groupId>com.github.dhorions</groupId>
  <artifactId>boxable</artifactId>
  <version>1.4</version>
 </dependency>

 <dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.pdfbox</groupId>
  <artifactId>pdfbox</artifactId>
  <version>2.0.0-RC3</version>
 </dependency>

 <dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
  <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
  <version>1.3.2</version>
 </dependency>

</dependencies>

Major Features

a.   Build tables in pdf documents

b.   Convert csv data into tables in pdf documents

c.    Convert Lists into tables in pdf documents

In this tutorial series, you are going to learn

a.   How to convert CSV file to a table inPDF

b.   How to convert a list to table in PDF

c.    How to convert multiple csv files totables in PDF

d.   How to convert list of lists into tablesin PDF

e.   Finally, you can go through the utility class, which contains all the source code of above four.

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