Best Java lib for programmatically converting a HTML page to an Image/PDF [closed]

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I am looking for the best Java lib which I can pass in a URL and have it create an image of what the web page looks like as it would in a browser. I tried out flyingsaucer however it seems like almost every web page breaks it -- it wont even render www.google.com or yahoo.com -- the only site i could get it to render is www.w3c.org!

Thoughts on a better tool to use, or possibly allow flying saucer to be more lax in the xhtml is accepts?

Answer 1

Flying Saucer fails on many pages since it only allows xhtml (see manual).

But you can use some html libs to "clean" your input an then use FS.

Webesite -> "Cleaner" -> Flying Saucer

Some good and free libs are:

1. JSoup (personal recommendation)
2. HtmlCleaner
3. JTidy (sometimes more strict than needed)
4. Jericho HTML

Answer 2

may be you can try itext.jar

download it from http://itextpdf.com/download.php

Answer 3

about html crawling:

use URL from java library. there are tons of examples about this.

about PDF converting:

If you are using Spring framework, you can use AbstractPdfView class via iText api. this is my favorite example. I think you can easily make use of it.

about image converting:

I recommend this one: http://code.google.com/p/java-html2image/

total:

read html by URL → convert it via iText or java-html2image. I strongly recommend you to do it yourself, not leave it to a certain library.