Adding JPG to PDF extremely slow - pdfbox

Question

I'm trying to write an Image to PDF using PDFBox. I'm using their sample (as attached). Everything is fine, but writing 3.5MB jpeg (3200*2500px) takes roughly 2 seconds.
Is this normal ? Is there any way how to make it faster (at least 10x) ?
public void createPDFFromImage( String inputFile, String image, String outputFile )
throws IOException, COSVisitorException
{
// the document
PDDocument doc = null;
try
{
doc = PDDocument.load( inputFile );
//we will add the image to the first page.
PDPage page = (PDPage)doc.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages().get( 0 );
PDXObjectImage ximage = null;
if( image.toLowerCase().endsWith( ".jpg" ) )
{
ximage = new PDJpeg(doc, new FileInputStream( image ) );
}
else if (image.toLowerCase().endsWith(".tif") || image.toLowerCase().endsWith(".tiff"))
{
ximage = new PDCcitt(doc, new RandomAccessFile(new File(image),"r"));
}
else
{
//BufferedImage awtImage = ImageIO.read( new File( image ) );
//ximage = new PDPixelMap(doc, awtImage);
throw new IOException( "Image type not supported:" + image );
}
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(doc, page, true, true);
contentStream.drawImage( ximage, 20, 20 );
contentStream.close();
doc.save( outputFile );
}
finally
{
if( doc != null )
{
doc.close();
}
}
}

Answer 1

If you are willing to use another product itext could go really fast, take a look at http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java-itext/image.html .Personally, I did this test with a +750k jpg image and took 78 ms
try {
PdfWriter.getInstance(document,
new FileOutputStream("Image2.pdf"));
document.open();
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
String imageUrl = "c:/Users/dummy/notSoBigImage.jpg";
Image image = Image.getInstance((imageUrl));
image.setAbsolutePosition(500f, 650f);
document.add(image);
document.close();
long end = System.currentTimeMillis() - start;
System.out.println("time: " + end + " ms");
} catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}