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PDFCraft
PDFCraft is a free, privacy-focused PDF toolkit
PDFCraft is an extensible toolkit for creating, editing, and transforming PDF documents with both a graphical interface and a scripting API, making it useful for users ranging from casual editors to automated document processors. At its core, the project provides a clean, modern UI where you can rearrange pages, annotate text, insert images, fill forms, and export to multiple formats, all without needing a heavyweight commercial PDF suite. But beyond manual editing, it also offers a programmable layer so developers can write scripts to batch process documents, generate templated reports, or extract structured data from PDFs for integration in workflows. The design emphasizes quality and compatibility: output PDFs render accurately across readers, preserve metadata, and support interactive elements like hyperlinks and form fields. -
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QPDF
PDF transformation/manipulation program + library
QPDF is a C++ library and set of programs that inspect and manipulate the structure of PDF files. It can encrypt and linearize files, expose the internals of a PDF file, and do many other operations useful to end users and PDF developers. -
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Free editor for PDF documents. Complete editing of PDF documents is possible with PDFedit. You can change raw pdf objects (for advanced users) or use many gui functions. Functionality can be easily extended using a scripting language (ECMAScript).
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TCPDF (DEPRECATED → use tc-lib-pdf)
PHP class for PDF
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book-to-skill
Turn any technical book PDF into a Claude Code skill
book-to-skill is a Claude Code skill that turns technical books and documents into reusable AI reference skills. It extracts content from PDFs and EPUBs, then organizes the material so an assistant can study, reference, and apply it while working. The project is useful for transforming dense manuals, textbooks, internal documentation, or technical guides into practical agent-accessible knowledge. It includes an extraction script and a SKILL.md workflow that guides how the resulting content should be used. The goal is not simply to summarize a book, but to make its knowledge available during problem solving and implementation. book-to-skill is best suited for developers and researchers who want AI assistants to work from specific long-form source material. -
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PoDoFo
A PDF parsing, modification and creation library.
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 Please raise new issues in the GitHub project. -
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Laravel Invoices
Laravel package to generate PDF invoices from customizable parameters
Laravel Invoices is a Laravel package for generating invoice PDF files from customizable data. It gives developers a simple interface for creating invoices that can be stored, downloaded, or streamed through configured filesystems. The package supports different templates and locales, making it useful for applications that serve customers in multiple regions. It is designed for business systems, SaaS products, admin panels, and client billing workflows that need invoice output without building the full PDF logic from scratch. Developers can define invoice buyers, sellers, items, totals, notes, and other invoice details in code. Its main value is making professional PDF invoice generation easier to add to Laravel applications. -
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PDF Split and Merge
Split and merge PDF files on any platform
Split and merge PDF files with PDFsam, an easy-to-use desktop tool with graphical, command line and web interface. -
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PDF-Shuffler is a small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. It is a frontend for python-pyPdf.
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jpeg2pdf
Create PDF from JPEG scans and photos
Cross-platform command-line tool for creation of PDF documents from scans/photos of pages in JPEG (.jpg) format and the lightest weight ANSI C library to put multiple JPEG files into one PDF file. You can add handwritten comments to PDF scans (over original images) with xournal: http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ It supports graphics tablets and saves comments to PDFs as vector data. -
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PDF Chain
a graphical user interface for the PDF Toolkit (PDFtk)
PDF Chain is a graphical user interface for the PDF Toolkit (PDFtk). The GUI supports all common features of the command line tool in a comfortable way. -
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Unredact
A simple tool for reading in poorly redacted documents
Unredact is a specialized tool that attempts to reconstruct redacted or obscured text in images, PDFs, or screenshots using a combination of image processing and generative AI inference to suggest plausible completions of blurred, black-boxed, or jumbled content. Unlike traditional optical character recognition (OCR), which only reads visible text, Unredact focuses on inferring missing content where redaction has been applied by analyzing surrounding context, font characteristics, and linguistic patterns to produce candidate reconstructions. It accepts a variety of input formats, automatically identifies redacted regions, and then generates text suggestions that are presented alongside visual overlays so users can choose or refine outputs. -
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iText®, a JAVA PDF library
PDF Library for Developers
iText is an open-source PDF library available for Java and .NET (C#). iText allows you to effortlessly generate and manipulate standards-compliant PDF documents with a powerful and feature-rich SDK. With iText, you can create archivable and accessible PDFs, split and merge documents, fill and flatten forms, digitally sign documents, and more. iText add-ons enable additional functionality, such as PDF creation from HTML templates, secure redaction, OCR, and much more. The latest versions of iText build on the success of previous versions and feature an improved document engine, high and low-level programming capabilities, and a more efficient modular structure. iText represents the next level for developers looking to leverage PDF in document workflows. The main project page for iText is now on GitHub, and all the latest releases, code samples, open source add-ons and tools, etc. can be found at https://github.com/itext/. -
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React-PDF
Display PDFs in your React app as easily as if they were images
React-PDF is a React library for displaying existing PDF documents directly inside web applications. It uses PDF.js underneath while exposing React components such as Document and Page for integration. PDF files can come from URLs, Base64 data, Uint8Arrays, and other supported sources. Individual pages can render text and annotation layers, including clickable PDF links. Developers can configure PDF.js workers, fonts, character maps, and WebAssembly assets for specialized documents. The library supports modern browsers and can also be used with Preact. It is intended for PDF viewing rather than PDF creation and includes examples and recipes for advanced implementations. -
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A simple tool to rearrange/merge/delete pages from PDF files. The modular backend system uses either JPedal or JPod to display PDFs and iText or Apache PDFBox to save them. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Development of this project has moved to GitHub. Please check https://github.com/mgropp/pdfjumbler for current releases! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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PDF Guru
Merge images and PDFs to a single PDF
PDF Guru is a simple in use program for merging multiple images and PDF files into a single compact PDF file. It is capable of selecting specific PDF pages or range of pages, which lets you have more control on the output file. Be able to produce compacted, smaller sized files in any operating system. Its features makes it a great, must have, tool for everyone. -
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Laravel Report Generators
Rapidly Generate Simple Pdf, CSV, & Excel Report Package on Laravel
Rapidly generate simple PDF reports on Laravel or CSV/Excel reports. This package provides simple PDF, csv & excel report generators to speed up your workflow. It also allows you to stream(), download(), or store() the report seamlessly. -
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pdf-bot
A Node queue API for generating PDFs using headless Chrome
pdf-bot is a Node.js microservice designed to automate the generation of PDF documents from web pages using headless Chrome. The project provides a queue-based API that allows developers to submit URLs for PDF generation, which are then processed asynchronously by the service. Once a document is generated, the system can notify external applications through webhooks, enabling integration with other backend systems or automation pipelines. The service is particularly useful for generating documents such as invoices, reports, and archived web content in a reliable and scalable way. PDF Bot also supports integration with cloud storage services like Amazon S3, allowing generated files to be stored and distributed automatically. The architecture separates the PDF rendering engine from application logic, making it easy to deploy as a standalone service within larger systems. -
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pdfplumber
Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line
pdfplumber is an open-source Python library designed to extract detailed information from PDF documents, including text, tables, characters, lines, rectangles, and other graphical objects. Built on pdfminer.six, it provides precise access to the position, dimensions, and properties of individual page elements. Users can extract text while preserving layout information and identify tables through configurable detection strategies. The library supports page cropping, object filtering, and visual debugging tools that display detected elements and table boundaries. It also provides access to PDF metadata and password-protected documents. A command-line interface exports page objects into structured CSV or JSON data. pdfplumber works best with digitally generated PDFs and is useful for document analysis, data extraction, and automated processing workflows. -
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tinypdf
Minimal PDF creation library
tinypdf is a minimal, zero-dependency PDF generation library that focuses on the core “put content on a page” use case while intentionally skipping heavyweight features. It is designed to be extremely small and approachable, making it a good fit when you want to generate real PDFs in Node/TypeScript without pulling in a large toolkit. The library supports essential primitives like writing text, drawing basic shapes, and placing JPEG images, which covers common needs such as invoices, receipts, tickets, and simple reports. It also supports clickable links so generated documents can include interactive URLs, and it can create multi-page documents with custom page sizes. A notable convenience is built-in markdown-to-PDF conversion for common structures like headers and lists, letting you go from formatted text to a PDF layout quickly. -
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toPDF
Online service for PDF conversion (to PDF)
A simple online service for PDF conversion. This project is a simple library and also a web application. It offers a REST service and a simple upload service for synchronous conversion. This library/application doesn't contain conversion libraries because it's a wrapper for existing tools. toPDF currently supports the open source tool PDF Creator (http://www.pdfforge.org) and the commercial solution, easy PDF, from BCL (http://www.pdfonline.com/easypdf/sdk/).
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