How to render pdf within the android application using PDF library

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I searched a lot on PDF rendering but not get proper answer.can anyone tell me which library (licensed under GPL) to render PDF and how to render that PDF. If anyone has sample code then it will be more helpful for me.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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Mupdf

http://www.mupdf.com/

MuPDF is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Affero GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Here's a link i found on SO. List of few pdf libraries helful

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4665957/pdf-parsing-library-for-android/4766335#4766335

edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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answered Apr 13 '13 at 19:05

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I have already tried MuPDF but while building library getting error can please post steps to build library and integrate it into my android project .need your quick replay. – mrbhatkande458 Apr 13 '13 at 21:16
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now, I have compiled the muPDF library and installed the test android application . It is running. Followed the instructions given in the mupdf documentation – mrbhatkande458 Apr 16 '13 at 19:11
PDF parsing library for Android? this link helped me alot – mrbhatkande458 Apr 16 '13 at 20:12
so mupdf is the only GPL library ...think not !! – Mauricio Gracia Gutierrez Nov 24 '15 at 06:34
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@MauricioGracia not sure i posted this answer very long ago. If there is something you want to add up please edit the post. – Raghunandan Nov 24 '15 at 06:35
@Raghunandan see my answer below and let me know what you think – Mauricio Gracia Gutierrez Nov 24 '15 at 06:37

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

You have at least two choices

Android-Pdf-Viewer-Library https://github.com/jblough/Android-Pdf-Viewer-Library

Mupdf http://www.mupdf.com/

MuPDF is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Affero GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

See also Integrate MuPDF Reader in an app

How to render pdf within the android application using PDF library

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