Compare the Top PDF APIs for Linux as of August 2024

What are PDF APIs for Linux?

PDF APIs enable developers to build PDF features into their applications and web apps. PDF API tools and toolkits provide the ability to integrate PDF functionality such as PDF generation, editing, processing, conversion, encryption, splitting, merging, and other functions into existing applications. Compare and read user reviews of the best PDF APIs for Linux currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Pdftools

    Pdftools

    PDF Tools

    Whether you have thousands of documents or millions, Pdftools has the products and services to help make processing a breeze. Designed for document-heavy industries, Pdftools’ suite of SDKs and APIs are here to make your document workflows easier, faster, and stress-free. Built on SDKs and APIs, the Pdftools products integrate seamlessly into your existing (or new) systems and applications. Process thousands of documents every minute. Our tools are precision-engineered to be efficient and run at blazing speeds. We’re engineers at heart, so we’re only satisfied with the most reliable, orderly, and usable, and well-documented platforms. Shrink file sizes down, but keep the quality and interactivity. Your documents will always be compliant for long-term archiving. We’ve obsessed over every detail in our products, and documented everything so it’s easy to get started.
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    Starting Price: $0/month/user
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    RAD PDF

    RAD PDF

    Red Software

    Add a fully functional PDF editor to your ASP.NET website in minutes! Compatible with 99% of desktop & mobile browsers, from Internet Explorer 6 through the latest iOS Safari release, RAD PDF simply works. No plugins or other software needed. RAD PDF natively supports the most commonly used PDF features. Beyond a PDF reader, RAD PDF equips web applications with a browser-based PDF editor & PDF annotator. Features not even available in Adobe Acrobat Reader can be used to provide advanced PDF functionality. By enabling PDF form filling, PDF redaction, & PDF signing directly in the web browser, RAD PDF users can utilize PDF features without worrying about having the right platform or software installed! Allow your app to design new PDF forms, protect content, sign PDFs, & more using an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI). Client (JavaScript) and server APIs allow for endless possibilities .NET Core, Framework, & .NET 5+ supported Try editing any PDF with RAD PDF, FREE!
    Starting Price: $299 per developer
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    PSPDFKit SDK

    PSPDFKit SDK

    PSPDFKit

    PSPDFKit is the comprehensive solution for all your PDF needs, offering tools that effortlessly integrate and operate PDF functionality across any platform. 1. SDK PRODUCTS Integrate robust PDF functionality into iOS, Android, Windows, web (JavaScript), or any cross-platform technology, providing capabilities such as PDF viewing, markup, collaboration, and more. 2. LIBRARIES Utilize our potent .NET and Java libraries to boost your backend applications with batch processing of redactions and PDF forms, OCR’d scanned text, and editing of PDF documents, directly from your application server. 3. PROCESSOR Our dynamic PDF microservice, Processor, enables swift generation of PDFs from HTML, including HTML forms, along with Office-to-PDF conversions, OCR, redaction, and XFDF merging and exporting. 4. PDF API Use hosted PDF API to generate, convert, and modify PDF documents in your workflows. We manage the development and server administration, letting you focus on what you do best
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    PrizmDoc

    PrizmDoc

    Accusoft

    Through a collection of UI components and content manipulation APIs, PrizmDoc provides customizable document processing to help developers deliver in-browser document creation, editing, and collaboration functionality, to enhance their software applications. Our functionality integrates on the client and server side smoothly, creating a seamless experience for both you and your users. Render and display dozens of file types, from Adobe PDFs and Microsoft Office files to CAD and DICOM formats, in a browser without the need to download or open native applications. Designed for seamless integration with your application, our zero footprint HTML5 viewer is fully customizable, from quick integrations with minimal configuration to complete programmatic control using our extensive JavaScript API.
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    PDF Automation Server
    PDF Automation Server – PDF Processing Server PDF Automation Server is a modular server product that provides a rich set of PDF processing functions for different environments. Use PAS as an essential tool to streamline your PDF processing, document workflows and web service orchestration in your organization. REST API Module Use REST API calls to easily integrate into your existing document workflows HTML5 PDF Module Convert documents and serve end-users PDF files directly in the browser Workflow Module Automate the receiving, processing & routing of documents with the PAS Workflow Module Robust REST API PDF Automation Server provides a complete set of PDF processing and conversion functions in a robust REST server environment that can easily integrate into your existing document workflows and work with 3rd party integration and orchestration products. HTML PDF Markup Module PDF Automation Server provides a module to enable markup of PDF documents in the browser.
    Starting Price: $2,400
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    MuPDF

    MuPDF

    Artifex Software

    Add powerful PDF functionality to all of your software application projects. MuPDF is a highly versatile, customizable PDF SDK that can be used as a PDF renderer, viewer, or library. The tiny footprint and lightning-fast performance make MuPDF a perfect fit for mobile browsers, eBooks, and embedded applications where small size is key. MuPDF supports a variety of interactive features including annotations, form filling, digital signatures, redactions, text search, and progressive loading. The wide range of input and output formats and our full range of platform support deliver a flexible solution to easily and successfully fulfill your project’s unique needs. MuPDF supports PDF, XPS, OpenXPS, EPUB, FictionBook 2 and CBZ. The MuPDF API easily integrates with all of the major platforms including Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, OpenBSD, and Windows. C++ and Python bindings have been added making it easy to use the MuPDF library from these languages.
    Starting Price: $749/per platform*
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    pdfRest API Toolkit Self-Hosted
    pdfRest API Toolkit Self-Hosted is available on the AWS Marketplace and can be spun up in just a few clicks. Self-host a production ready server to integrate the PDF processing API Toolkit into your own service or to automate your internal document workflow. Watermark PDF, Add to PDF, Query PDF, Convert to PDF, PDF to Images, Convert PDF Colors, Convert to PDF/A, Convert to PDF/X, Compress PDF, Linearize PDF, Flatten Annotations, Flatten Layers, Flatten Transparencies, Merge PDFs, Split PDF, Encrypt PDF, Decrypt PDF, Restrict PDF, Extract Text, OCR PDF, Upload Files, Zip Files. Maintain full control with a dedicated EC2-based RESTful API with scalable performance to meet your needs. Built with Adobe PDF Library, the same technology that powers Adobe Acrobat, and developed by Datalogics, globally-trusted document processing experts for over 50 years, pdfRest has the gold-standard API Toolkit for high-quality PDF processing.
    Starting Price: $0.242 per hour
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    ComPDFKit PDF SDK

    ComPDFKit PDF SDK

    PDF Technologies, Inc.

    ComPDFKit offers a top-quality PDF SDK, PDF API, and PDF Server for developers or companies. It allows them to integrate PDF editing, annotating, converting, form filling, digital signing, comparing, measuring, and redacting into any device. ComPDFKit Updates: 1. ComPDFKit API - Sign up and Get 1000 Free Files Processing Monthly. Allow you to edit & convert PDF files, split/merge/insert/rotate/delete/extract PDF pages, and process PDFs with OCR, image processing, form recognizer, layout analysis, trim correction, and stamp inspection. 2. Free Online Tools Work with PDF in ComPDFKit online PDF tools to convert PDF files to/from docx, xlsx, pptx, png, jpg, html, txt, csv, rtf files, etc. 3. Web Demo View, Edit, Annotate, Compare, Sign, Encrypt, Decrypt, watermark PDF files, and Create/fill out PDF forms online for free. 4. Community License Start-ups and Individual developers can get affordable prices from ComPDFKit.
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    Document APIs

    Document APIs

    GrapeCity

    Fast, efficient Document APIs for .NET Standard 2.0 and Java Take total document control with ultra-fast, low-footprint document APIs for enterprise apps. Generate, load, edit, save spreadsheets, PDF, images, and DOCX files. Create large spreadsheets, Word, images, and PDF documents, fast. No dependencies on Excel, Word, or Acrobat Run on Windows, Mac, Linux Deploy to Azure, AWS, and AWS Lambda What’s New in GrapeCity Documents v5: - Full support for .NET 6 - SVG support for GrapeCity Documents for PDF and Imaging - Print PDF documents on Windows with GrapeCity Documents for PDF - UI enhancements for GrapeCity Documents for PDF Viewer - And much more!
    Starting Price: $999 per developer
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    PDF Conversion SDK

    PDF Conversion SDK

    Visual Integrity Technologies

    Add PDF Features with 2 API Calls Open, Edit, and View PDF. All that's needed is two API calls and a configuration file. Within a day, you can add, open, import, edit and view PDF features in your app. When formats don't match one-to-one, the SDK neutralizes the differences. This includes adding cropping, fills, color management and fonts. The PDF Conversion SDK processes all PDF versions including ISO Standard PDF 2.0. Any PDF from file or print-ready memory is valid input. Conversions flow straight through without intermediate steps or compromised quality. No printer driver. The PDF Conversion SDK runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux. It supports .NET. Example code included. Removes redundant information & compresses data. This ensures great performance for fast web and application viewing. Search for objects and text strings. Convert PDF to your native file format. Change the contents of a PDF page. Extract images from PDF. Retrieve metadata from PDF (layers, geospecification, etc).
    Starting Price: $199 per year
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    Foxit PDF SDK
    Our high-performance libraries add robust PDF functionality to enterprise, mobile, and cloud applications across all platforms: Web, Windows, Android, iOS, Mac, UWP and Linux, using the most popular developer languages and environments. Build on a modern tech stack that integrates tightly with the platform you’re working on. We continuously improve our products and they gain new features every month. We grow with you as your requirements change and your project evolves. Our core API is designed from the ground up to deliver a seamless development experience across all platforms, without requiring deep PDF knowledge. Foxit is known for our management of edge cases, and for working with 100% of PDF files across all standards. With only one SDK to work with, you dramatically reduce your exposure to third parties. We provide sample, projects, demos, API docs and more for every single feature in the PDF SDK to get you up to speed quickly. You will receive support by real developers.
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    PassportPDF

    PassportPDF

    ORPALIS

    This modern cloud infrastructure offers freemium microservices, productivity-oriented solutions in many fields such as compression, unified APIs working on any platform, on any client, from any programming language, and a new SaaS licensing. A guide and complete documentation provide all the necessary steps for authentication, communication with the API, processing documents, and managing errors. There is also a section about best practices regarding efficiency. Minimalistic and straightforward ASP.NET Core MVC application which demonstrates how to use DocuVieware through the PassportPDF Rest API to visualize documents. This application will evolve over time, as other similar demos are implemented. Minimalistic and straightforward ASP.NET 4.6.2 application which demonstrates how to use DocuVieware through the PassportPDF Rest API to visualize documents. This application will evolve over time, as other similar demos are implemented.
    Starting Price: $6,000 per year
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    jPDFOptimizer

    jPDFOptimizer

    Qoppa Software

    jPDFOptimizer is a Java library to optimize and reduce the size of PDF documents. jPDFOptimizer can remove unnecessary objects in PDF documents, detect and merge duplicate images and fonts, and modify image resolution, compression and color spaces to reduce size. The library provides a powerful, yet simple API to let the calling application fine tune how to optimize documents. jPDFOptimizer is built on Qoppa Software’s extensive PDF technology and requires no third party software or drivers. The library is 100% Java and can run on any operating system for which there is a standard Java implementation, such as Windows, Linux, Unix, Solaris and others. Features: -Modify image resolution, compression and color spaces -Compress images using JPEG, JPEG 2000 and JBIG2 -Compress data streams -Remove unused objects -Remove and merge duplicate images and fonts -Flexible optimization options -Linearize PDFs for fast web view -Support for latest PDF format -Support for JDK 1.6+
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    PDFBox

    PDFBox

    Apache Software Foundation

    The Apache PDFBox® library is an open-source Java tool for working with PDF documents. This project allows the creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. Apache PDFBox also includes several command-line utilities. Apache PDFBox is published under the Apache License v2.0. Extract Unicode text from PDF files. Split a single PDF into many files or merge multiple PDF files. Extract data from PDF forms or fill a PDF form. Validate PDF files against the PDF/A-1b standard. Print a PDF file using the standard Java printing API. Create a PDF from scratch, with embedded fonts and images. Save PDFs as image files, such as PNG or JPEG and digitally sign PDF files. See also the export control information related to the encryption features included in Apache PDFBox.
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    Investintech PDF Library SDK

    Investintech PDF Library SDK

    Investintech PDF Solutions

    Seamlessly integrate robust PDF editing, parsing and rendering functionalities into your projects with PDF library SDK. Multi-platform shared library (dll, so and dylib) with C-compatible interface. C#.Net, Python, Java 8, C++ 11, libraries/modules. APIs for Linux, Windows, and Mac. Numerous interface functions for transforming and creating new content for PDF files, providing a huge variety of options and broad flexibility for implementation tailored to the specific needs of your project. Efficient utilization of multi-core CPUs for stream decoding and content rendering purposes achieved by closely following portable document format specification guidelines. Apply electronic signatures (with or without cryptographic security layer). PDF encryption & decryption (a password-based encryption handler). Document structure manipulation (create, delete, move, insert, extract, resize, and rotate pages).
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    LEADTOOLS PDF SDK
    With just a few lines of code, LEADTOOLS libraries empower developers with a comprehensive PDF API to implement reliable and multi-threaded PDF functionality, without the need for third-party dependencies like Acrobat. Robust PDF controls to read, write, convert, and view PDF files can be combined with state-of-the-art OCR, ICR, OMR, forms recognition, virtual printing, and scanning APIs within LEADTOOLS to create complete solutions that utilize the PDF format. Load and view any PDF file using the document viewer API framework. Tested against thousands of PDF documents, LEADTOOLS PDF SDK libraries provide impeccable viewing accuracy and speed that tops many market-leading PDF reading applications. LEADTOOLS accounts for common errors and differences between PDF file versions to give programmers peace of mind, minimize their testing phase, and create the best PDF applications faster.
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    jPDFEditor

    jPDFEditor

    Qoppa Software

    jPDFEditor is intended for developers and integrators. For end-users, Qoppa Software offers PDF Studio, our advanced desktop PDF editor for Mac, Windows and Linux based on our same solid PDF technology. jPDFEditor can load documents from files on a local or network drive, from a URL and from Java input streams for documents that are generated runtime or come from other sources, such as a database. After editing documents, the library can save them. Features: -Display PDF files -Print PDF files -Convert text and image files (gif, png, jpg, tiff) to PDF on the fly -Fill and save interactive PDF forms -Markup PDFs (all PDF annotations and text markups supported) -Digitally sign PDF files -Content editing -Redaction -Optional OCR module -Optional Comparison module -Access jPDFProcess powerful PDF manipulation API -Text search, selection, copy -Easy navigation with thumbnail, bookmark, annotation, signature views -Advanced tools: zoom, loupe, snapshot, pan and zoom
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