Open Source C# PDF Generation Libraries

iText for .NET is the .NET version of the iText library, formerly known as iTextSharp, which it replaces. iText represents the next level of SDKs for developers who want to take advantage of the benefits PDF can bring. Equipped with a better document engine, high and low-level programming capabilities and the ability to create, edit, and enhance PDFs.

This project allows users to read and extract text and other content from PDF files. In addition the library can be used to create simple PDF documents containing text and geometrical shapes.

PDFsharp moved to https://github.com/empira/PDFsharp PDFsharp is a .NET library for creating and modifying Adobe PDF documents programmatically from any .NET language like C# or VB.NET. PDFsharp defines classes for the objects found in PDF files, so you never have to deal with IDs or references directly. The downloads include MigraDoc Foundation, a .NET library for creating documents on the fly (supports PDF and RTF). PDFsharp is the .NET library that easily creates and processes PDF documents on the fly from any .NET language. The same drawing routines can be used to create PDF documents, draw on the screen, or send output to any printer. MigraDoc Foundation is the .NET library that easily creates documents based on an object model with paragraphs, tables, styles, etc. and renders them into PDF, XPS, or RTF.

ConcatPDF is the tool to concatenate PDF files. It can concatenate, extract, encrypt, decrypt, configure PDF files, convert image files to PDF. GUI version and CUI version are both available. iText.NET is iText porting on .NET Framework by J#. This library allows you to generate PDF, (X)HTML, XML, RTF files on Microsoft.NET Framework including ASP.NET.

Quickly design and generate PDF documents with an open-source, modern, and battle-tested C# library. Forget about limitations, feel confident, enjoy your task and efficiently deliver professional products. QuestPDF is a progressive library that can help you with generating PDF documents in your .NET application by offering a friendly, discoverable and predictable C# fluent API. Do you believe that creating a complete invoice document can take less than 200 lines of code? We have prepared for you a step-by-step instruction that shows every detail of this implementation and describes the best patterns and practices. This library is created specifically for designing and arranging document layouts, with full paging support. Alternative solutions, such as HTML-based converters, are not designed for this purpose and therefore are often unpredictable and do not produce desired results.

Free Open Source Reporting tool for .NET Core/.NET Framework that helps your application generate document-like reports.

sharpPDF is easy-to-use c# library to generate PDF on the fly. It allows to save pdf files or get binary streams in output(for example, usable in ASP.NET).