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The PoDoFo library is a free, portable C++ library. It can parse and modify existing PDF files and create new ones from scratch. It also includes several tools to work with PDF files.
It features an unique approach which provides access to PDF documents via an object tree. Therefore, PDFs can be created and or manipulated using a simple tree structure.

Development of PoDoFo has been moved to GitHub: https://github.com/podofo/podofo

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Features

  • Create PDF files
  • Read PDF files
  • Modify PDF files
  • Simple commandline tools to work with PDF files
  • Encrypt and sign PDFs
  • Draw PDFs
  • Unicode fonts
  • Font subsetting

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Categories

Data Formats, Graphics, PDF

License

GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 2.0 (LGPLv2)

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  • xtof1 Posted 2018-06-09
    Good API, easy to integrate.
  • xxfradxx Edited 2016-10-16
    Very Good API , I build successfully and its great , congratulations... I have a little problem when I try impose a PDF, The process finally good and all is good except by some image , the only thing that I can see is the BitsPerComponents, the value is one in those images, the others has more of one bitspercomp.. Please help me, because the output PDF is bad , those images shown in blank and the adobe reader show me a error , the another image and document show good but the 1 bitspercomponent images dont show.. Thanks for help.. Dom help me
  • peparokos Posted 2016-09-06
    The best PDF library!
  • petrpetrov Posted 2016-02-04
    Must have C++ PDF-parsing library!
  • grafal Posted 2014-03-12
    Easy to use, well documented and propre design.
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

BSD, Linux, Windows

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, Developers

Programming Language

C++, Lua

Related Categories

C++ Data Formats Software, C++ Graphics Software, C++ PDF Software, Lua Data Formats Software, Lua Graphics Software, Lua PDF Software

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2005-11-29
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