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Qoppa Java PDF SDK

Java PDF library suite that is no longer sold: its functionality moved to Apryse Java PDF.

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Edit Browse all edit tools

editing PDF content with the Qoppa Java PDF libraries, where the jPDFEditor library page states that its content editing tool lets users copy, delete, edit and move text, copy, delete, move and resize images, and copy, delete, edit, move and resize shapes and paths, working with single or multiple text, image or path objects, and that its redaction feature permanently removes sensitive information; the jPDFEditor feature list also covers display, print, filling and saving interactive forms, annotations and text markup, digital signing, text search and selection, and optional OCR and comparison modules, while the Redact solution page says jPDFProcess can permanently redact content through its API based on the caller's rules; the libraries are 100 percent Java components that run on Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix without third-party programs; the scope is the documented content editing and redaction inside these libraries, with the OCR and comparison modules named as separate optional modules rather than included, and no hosted processing claimed

Merge Browse all merge tools

assembling, merging and splitting PDF documents with the Qoppa Java PDF libraries, where the Assemble, Merge, Split solution page attributes assembling and disassembling PDF documents, including splitting, merging and combining, to the jPDFAssemble Java library, and says the flexible API allows merging and splitting documents based on the caller's own rules and information found in the documents; the same page lists manipulating PDF bookmarks and outlines as part of the library's remit; no page-size, file-count, encryption or signature-preservation figure is stated on the pages read, and no hosted processing is claimed

Convert Browse all convert tools

converting PDF documents to and from other formats with the Qoppa Java PDF libraries, where the jPDFImages library page says it exports PDF pages as JPEG, TIFF or PNG images, imports images into new or existing PDFs as new pages, supports PDF 2.0 and saves to the file system or Java output streams; the jPDFWeb library page says it converts PDF documents to HTML5 and SVG, converting Word and Excel documents to HTML5 when combined with jOfficeConvert, preserving fonts and image resolution, converting colour images to JPEG and black-and-white or transparent images to PNG, and preserving vector graphics, annotations, links and form field data, digital signature validation status and page thumbnails; the Convert PDF to Images solution page attributes PDF-to-image and image-to-PDF conversion to jPDFImages, and the Convert PDF to HTML solution page points at the same libraries; the pages read give no conversion-fidelity guarantee, and no hosted processing is claimed

Protect Browse all protect tools

protecting PDF documents with the Qoppa Java PDF libraries, where the jPDFSecure library page says the library can encrypt PDF documents, set permissions and passwords and create and apply digital signatures, and the Redact solution page says jPDFEditor adds and applies redaction annotations while jPDFProcess permanently redacts content by rules, with search-and-redact shown for the separate PDF Automation Server product; the jPDFEditor feature list names redaction as a feature that permanently removes sensitive information; the documented protection is therefore encryption with permissions and passwords plus permanent redaction, signing is the separate sign job, and no encryption algorithm, key length or certification level is claimed on the pages read, with no hosted processing claimed

Extract Browse all extract tools

extracting data and text from PDF documents with the Qoppa Java PDF libraries, where the Fill PDF Forms and Extract Data solution page attributes setting and getting PDF form fields, importing and exporting field data in FDF, XFDF, XDP and XML formats, and flattening fields to the jPDFFields Java library, and the jPDFText library page says the library extracts text from PDF documents for archiving, storage, searching or indexing; the pages read document form field data and text extraction, and no OCR is claimed here because OCR is described on its own page as a separate capability, with no hosted processing claimed

Sign Browse all sign tools

digitally signing PDF documents with the Qoppa Java PDF libraries, where the Sign PDF Documents solution page attributes digital signing and encryption to the jPDFSecure Java library and displaying and signing PDF documents to the jPDFNotes Java component, and the jPDFSecure library page says the library can create and apply digital signatures as well as encrypt documents, set permissions and passwords; the page lists distinct desktop and server products for creating signature fields and self-signed certificates, so those are not claimed for the libraries, and no signature algorithm, certificate-authority service or timestamping claim is made, with no hosted processing claimed

Compress Browse all compress tools

reducing the size of PDF documents with the Qoppa Java PDF libraries, where the Optimize PDF Documents solution page attributes optimization to the jPDFOptimizer Java library and says its flexible settings support changing image compression quality, removing unused objects, merging duplicate objects and linearizing; the same page describes the library's use with a batch of PDFs and saving PDFs for fast web viewing, and the Preflight solution page is a separate capability not claimed in this job; no size-reduction percentage, image-quality threshold or lossless guarantee is stated on the pages read, and no hosted processing claimed

Discontinued

Qoppa has stopped selling new licences for its Java PDF libraries and moved their functionality to the Apryse Java PDF product. Re-verified on 2026-10-16: the product page still displays the vendor's own banner, "We are no longer selling new licenses for these products.

We've moved their functionalities and more to the Apryse Java PDF. Check it out here!", in a static banner element on the served page and in the rendered visible text, while the same page continues to list the libraries in the present tense and the footer reads "Powered by Apryse".

The notice is about new licensing rather than about the pages being withdrawn. The earlier recording date was 2026-09-22 and the notice has not been observed to change since; if it disappears on a future read, this status and the licence wording must be revisited rather than assumed.

Its successor in this directory: Apryse (Apryse).

Where your files are processed

No server involved

Java libraries embedded in your own application and running on your own JVM. Qoppa operates no processing service. The suite is unsold rather than switched off, so an existing deployment is unaffected. That is a property of the library itself: what an application built with it does with your file depends on that application, not on this.

Java libraries embedded in your own application, running on your own JVM. Qoppa operates no processing service in that path.

The suite is unsold rather than withdrawn from service, so an existing deployment is unaffected by the change.

What it does

A suite of Java libraries that between them covered most of what a Java application might need to do with a PDF: assemble and split, read and write form fields, convert to and from images, optimise, preflight against PDF/A and PDF/X, print, sign and encrypt, extract text, convert to SVG and HTML5, and generate PDFs. There were also three Swing components for embedding a viewer, an annotator and an editor.

It is recorded here because it is still widely referenced and still installable, and because the vendor has stopped selling it: new licences are no longer issued and the functionality has moved to Apryse's Java PDF product.

Best for

Nothing, for a new project - the vendor has withdrawn it and points buyers at Apryse instead. The record exists so that a reader who finds Qoppa's Java libraries in a search result, in a vendor comparison or in an old dependency learns three things in one page: that it existed, what it did, and that it is no longer sold.

Worth knowing

No new licences are sold, so it cannot be bought for a new project, and the vendor’s own advice is to use Apryse’s Java PDF library instead. That is a sales fact rather than a support fact, and the two are separate questions.

Whether patches, security fixes and compatibility updates continue for existing licensees is not established by the notice we read: existing licence rights, the support window and technical compatibility are three different things, and an existing deployment is not automatically unaffected by the change either. What can be said is narrower than either: the suite is unsold, and code already built on it may run for years.

The free jPDFWriter library is a separate exception within the family and is still offered, so a family-wide free-tier badge would be wrong: the commercial libraries are closed and that one is not.

Details, and where each comes from

Vendor statements, our own reading of their pages, and the things nobody has established yet, each answered separately. Where we have not confirmed something it says so rather than guessing, and a row nobody has established is greyed out.

Versions covered
Self-hosted · Windows · macOS · Linux
Website
qoppa.com
Requires an account
Not applicable
Free tier
Yes
Watermark on the free tier
Not verified
Maximum file size
Not verified
Batch processing
Yes
Data residency
Self-hosted
Open source
No
Self-hostable
Yes
Licence
Commercial per-library licences, no longer sold to new customers

Commercial per-library licences, no longer sold to new customers; jPDFWriter is a free library

Redaction
Not determined
Programmatic access
Embeddable library
Last availability check
Responded in 786 ms 21 October 2026

Checked automatically by our own runner, not reported by the vendor. 100% of our last 30 checks got a response.

Why we have not determined this

“jPDFEditor - Additionally redact and edit content in PDF documents”

What that does not establish

Recorded as `unverified` for the same reason as two other records in this batch: redaction appears as a word in a component list, naming one of the three Swing viewers, and no page read says whether content is removed from the page or covered. The site also lists "Redact PDF Documents" among its solutions, which confirms the feature exists somewhere in the line without establishing the mechanism.

THE VERDICT MATTERS LESS THAN USUAL HERE because the product cannot be bought: anybody reading this record is either maintaining an existing licence or looking for a replacement, and the replacement is Apryse's Java library, whose own redaction basis is a separate question. What would settle it: the jPDFEditor documentation, or a canary test on an existing installation.

https://www.qoppa.com/pdfsolutions/java-pdf-sdk/

What the vendor says

Claims are labelled rather than repeated as fact. Where we have checked something ourselves, it says so and shows when. Checked means we read the vendor's own page and it says what we recorded - not that we tested the behaviour, unless the note says we did.

  • “We are no longer selling new licenses for these products. We've moved their functionalities and more to the Apryse Java PDF. Check it out here!”

    Checked by us - the source says this Read 16 October 2026

    Confirmed on 2026-10-16 in served HTML and in rendered visible text at 15, 20 and 30 second waits: the banner reads that new licenses for these products are no longer being sold and that their functionality has moved to the Apryse Java PDF. The claim had previously been checked on 2026-10-01.

    A conflicting report that the rendered page showed no notice was received the same day and is recorded rather than silently overridden.

    Standing: Not re-read against the live source

    Check it yourself: the source, the SHA-256, and how we checked
    From
    the text a browser renders
    SHA-256
    147195b8d8fc548b31272320275b82a58c5006a6f99d22f6300bb6704940618d

    How we checked

    Read twice on 2026-10-16: once as served HTML and once as rendered visible text in headless Chrome 155 with a 15000 ms wait, repeated at 20000 ms and 30000 ms. The notice appears in a static element with id banner, not in a rotating slider, so it is not a timing artefact.

    An independent reader reported on the same day that the rendered page showed no notice; that observation conflicts with these three renders and with the served HTML, and the current first-party page is treated as the stronger evidence while the discrepancy is recorded in the internal notes.

    What this hash proves, and what it does not

  • “Qoppa Software has developed an extensive suite of PDF libraries and components in Java that cover every aspect of PDF processes, allowing you to PDF-enable your Java applications and web servers.”

    Checked by us - the source says this Read 1 October 2026

    Confirmed. The quoted text appears in the rendered page as read on 2026-10-01.

    This claim was carried as reported rather than checked until this read.

    Standing: Not re-read against the live source

    Check it yourself: the source, the SHA-256, and how we checked
    From
    the text a browser renders
    SHA-256
    147195b8d8fc548b31272320275b82a58c5006a6f99d22f6300bb6704940618d

    How we checked

    Read as rendered text in headless Chrome on 2026-10-01 and saved to the evidence archive, so the read can be repeated against the same file. Comparison ignores case, punctuation and hyphenation, which is why "open-source" on the record matches "open source" on the page.

    What this hash proves, and what it does not

Each claim is quoted from the vendor's own pages. This section describes what we have and have not checked - it is not a judgement about anyone.

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How this record was put together

Editorial review.
No editor has signed this record off. That is not the same as nothing having been checked, and the lines below say what has.
Source reading.
2 claims taken from the vendor's own pages, read between 1 October 2026 and 16 October 2026.
Website availability.
The vendor's site was last checked on 21 October 2026.
Behaviour testing.
We ran this ourselves. The file handling was watched directly.

Sources: qoppa.com: the Java PDF SDK page, read 2026-09-22 with headless Chrome, including the vendor's discontinuation notice at the top of the page. Vendor documentation, not independently tested; no library was obtained.