jOfficeConvert VS jPDFPreflight

Convert Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations to PDF directly from your Java applications, without user intervention and without the need for any other software.

jOfficeConvert is a Java library that can read and render MS Word, Excel & PowerPoint documents natively to convert to PDF, to convert to images, or to print the documents automatically. It preserves faithfully the original layout, properties and fonts from the original document and when outputting to PDF, offers many advanced conversion options such whether to embed or not the fonts in the resulting PDF.

The library is 100% Java so it can run on any platform that supports Java, including Windows, Linux, Unix, and Mac OSX. The library does not use any third party software or native calls, it can be run in a server environment or integrated into a desktop application.

Main Features: -Convert Word 2007+ (.docx) to PDF -Convert Word 97-2003 (.doc) to PDF -Convert Excel 2007+ (.xlsx) to PDF -Convert PowerPoint 2007+ (.pptx) to PDF -Convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint files to HTML5 (when combined with jPDFWeb) -Convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint files to JPEG, TIFF or PNG images -Merge multiple Word, Excel, PowerPoint files into a single PDF document -Set permissions and passwords on resulting PDF documents -Print Word, Excel, PowerPoint files automatically to default or named printers -No third party software or drivers necessary -Support for JDK 1.8 and above

jPDFPreflight can check compliance with the following profiles:

PDF/UA Verification PDF/A-1b Verification PDF/A-2b Verification PDF/A-2u Verification PDF/A-3b Verification PDF/X-1a:2001 Verification PDF/X-1a:2003 Verification PDF/X-3:2002 Verification PDF/X-3:2003 Verification (including ZUGFeRD)

jPDFPreflight can convert existing PDF documents to make them compliant with the following profiles:

Convert from PDF to PDF/A-1b Convert from PDF to PDF/A-2b Convert from PDF to PDF/A-3b

Main Features: -Verify compliance of PDF documents with several standards -Convert documents to make them PDF/A compliant -Produced detail report of all non-compliant items -Add annotations to documents to highlight non-compliant items -Works on Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac OS X (100% Java) -Runs on all J2EE compliant servers -Support for latest PDF 2.0 -No need to install, configure additional drivers, or software when deploying your application.