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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License

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

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  • Good API, easy to integrate.
  • 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
  • The best PDF library!
  • Must have C++ PDF-parsing library!
  • 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

Registered

2005-11-29