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JPedal
IDR Solutions
JPedal is a versatile Java PDF Library for displaying, converting, printing, and parsing PDFs in Java applications. With over 20 years of development, it supports a wide range of PDF files. Key features include: -PDF to Image Conversion: Converts PDFs to images in various formats. -Java Swing PDF Viewer: Offers multi-page display, search, printing, and annotation editing. -Text and Image Extraction: High-quality extraction of text and images from PDFs. -PDF Search: Supports searching with wildcards and regular expressions. -Form & Annotation Handling: Supports XFA and AcroForms, enabling form data access and annotation editing. -Document Manipulation: Allows deleting, merging, splitting, and optimizing PDFs. -Security & Performance: Runs locally without third-party dependencies, processing PDFs up to 3x faster than alternatives.Starting Price: $950 one time fee -
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PDFKit.NET 5.0
TallComponents
Create and manipulate PDF documents. Split, append, stamp, encrypt, extract, fill, and more. PDFKit.NET is a 100% managed (verifiable) .NET class library for creating and manipulating PDF documents. It consists of just a single assembly that can be xcopy-deployed. It has no dependencies other than the .NET framework. Central to PDFKit.NET is a consistent and highly intuitive object model consisting of classes like document, page collection, page, canvas, shape, bookmark, annotation, field, etc. The focus of the development team is always to ease the task of integrating our class library into a larger application. Fill text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc., and save the form either editable or flattened with the PDFKit.NET 5.0. With PDFKit.NET 5.0 you can populate and consume dynamic XFA documents with the new XFA processor API. Extract all graphics on a page as a collection of shapes with PDFKit 5.0. Shapes can be text, images, and curves.Starting Price: $990 per year -
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pdfToolbox
callas software GmbH
pdfToolbox offers powerful, dynamic, and easy-to-integrate PDF processing, from quick visual inspection and fixing to fully unattended processing of thousands of files. Using rock-solid Adobe technology pdfToolbox provides checking and fixing of even very complex problems, color management, impositioning, conversion to and from PDF, and more. pdfToolbox technology is used by small companies, large publishers, and print providers as well as OEMs that integrate the technology in their own solutions. pdfToolbox Desktop is a manual PDF preflight and correction application, available as a plug-in in Adobe Acrobat Pro or as a standalone application. pdfToolbox offers prepress operators an easy-to-use interface for all pre-press actions, which gets you to each action you might need in three simple steps. You can easily customize this further, so you have your favorite actions at your fingertips.Starting Price: Free -
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iText
Apryse
Now part of the Apryse family, iText is one of the best-documented and most versatile PDF SDKs in the world. The open-source iText Core library features a powerful layout engine and intuitive high-level APIs for document creation and manipulation, digital signing and validation, and much more. It has built-in support for PDF 2.0, all variants of PDF/A and PDF/UA, FIPS-140-2 and the very latest ISO standards for digital signatures and encryption. You can extend iText's capabilities even further, with add-ons for comprehensive HTML/XML and CSS templating, global language and writing systems, secure document redaction, OCR, document optimization, and working with dynamic XFA. iText Core is free to use under the AGPLv3 license, while a commercial license releases you from the AGPL terms and gives you professional support and maintenance. Visit the iText website to try the entire iText Suite free for 30 days, while keeping your IP safe under iText's commercial license terms. -
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ByteScout PDF SDK
ByteScout
The Bytescout PDF Generator SDK is a unique and multi-functional product available for developers of any level and experience. It is flexible for new updates and changes – see SDK updates here PDF generation is a complex process where this SDK is the perfect help to cover all possible work. You will facilitate the creation of rich reports allowing PDF SDK features. All you need to do is properly install the program and you can get started. The software runs directly on your computer without complicating the process. Many developers voted for Bytescout products when it came to .NET PDF generation. If you need an SDK for JS, you can check the Javascript PDF generator and its updates. In order to extract text from PDF – just see the PDF Extractor page on the website. PDF rendering can be helpful when converting documents to images or doing OCR processing. If you just need to add a viewing PDF functionality for your documents, try the C# PDF library.Starting Price: $1,102.99 one-time payment -
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PDFlib
PDFlib
PDFlib GmbH is completely focused on PDF technology. Customers are using our products since 1997. In 2006 we were one of the founding members of the PDF Association (formerly PDF/A Competence Center). The company closely follows development and market trends such as ISO standards for PDF. PDFlib GmbH products are distributed all over the world with major markets in Europe, North America and Japan. PDFlib is a well-established developer component for generating and manipulating PDF documents. PDFlib’s main targets are dynamic PDF creation on a web server and PDF creation in any kind of server, desktop or mobile application. You can use PDFlib to dynamically create PDF documents from database contents, similar to dynamic Web pages. Since 1997 PDFlib has proven itself in a wide range of use cases and development environments. Application programmers use PDFlib to create PDF output with text, images, graphics and interactive elements. -
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Foxit PDF SDK
Foxit Software
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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TechPDFKit
PDF Technologies
Seamlessly enable high-performance PDF viewing, annotating, editing, signing, and more in your apps or any mobile, desktop or server framework. Build on a modern tech stack that integrates tightly with the platform you're working on. We grow with you as your requirements change and your project evolves. Maintain a smooth viewing experience in even the most complex PDF documents with a fast and battle-tested rendering engine. Lightning-fast search delivers near-instant results to your users. Markup PDFs with highlights, stamps, and comments, draw and add notes to PDFs, or create custom annotations. Make use of many more annotation types, each with its own style controls. Apply electronic and digital signatures in PDFs to speed up paperless workflow and secure document signing. Certify, and validate certificate-based documents you receive. Automatically detect font and size of the original text content. Easily update PDF documents by changing text and images. -
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Aquaforest SDK
Aquaforest
Aquaforest SDK is a powerful toolset for processing PDFs including PDF content extraction, searchable PDF creation, OCR with standard (Aquaforest) engine, OCR with extended (Canon IRIS) engine, and handwriting OCR options via Google and Microsoft APIs. Advanced PDF and barcode toolkit, high performance with support for up to 64 cores. The SDK is able to analyze PDF documents and automatically extract name/value pairs. The SDK has a wide variety of PDF manipulation capabilities including PDF merging, PDF attachment processing, PDF content extraction, XMP metadata processing, PDF/A validation, and more. The standard OCR engine supports 23 languages and is included in every edition of the SDK. This provides an interface to Google and Microsoft’s cloud OCR services which can be especially useful for special cases such as handwriting recognition. The SDK is able to read and recognize most standard barcode types. -
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PDF Viewer SDK ActiveX
Viscom Software
It is PDF Viewer SDK, fast open PDF, support Autofill PDF form fields and print a PDF, export text to text file, xml file, html file and searching the text with C++ , C#, VB.Net , VB6, Delphi, Vfp, MS Access. -
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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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PDFKit
PDFKit
PDFKit is a PDF document generation library for Node and the browser that makes creating complex, multi-page, printable documents easy. The API embraces chainability, and includes both low-level functions as well as abstractions for higher-level functionality. The PDFKit API is designed to be simple, so generating complex documents is often as simple as a few function calls. Access privileges (printing, copying, modifying, annotating, form filling, content accessibility, document assembly). Accessibility support (marked content, logical structure, Tagged PDF, PDF/UA). Supports JPEG and PNG files (including indexed PNGs, and PNGs with transparency). In addition to PDFKit, you'll need somewhere to stream the output to. Note that in order to Browserify a project using PDFKit, you need to install the brfs module with npm, which is used to load built-in font data into the package. -
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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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ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK
ByteScout
PDF Extractor’s high-performance engine works flawlessly under pressure, making it an ideal solution for processing large quantities of PDF reports, indexing large PDF libraries, and more. No matter how complex your PDF document’s structure is, you’ll find that PDF Extractor is easy to use and integrate into your existing systems seamlessly. PDF Extractor can process damaged files that have a complex structure, can repair malformed text that otherwise would need to be processed manually. Full set of advanced tools: turn scans into searchable PDF, split and merge PDF, remove text, analyze, find, detect and remove sensitive data and personally identifiable information (PII) from PDF and scanned documents. Extracts tables and text objects from PDF to Excel with .XLS and .XLSX as output. -
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LEADTOOLS PDF SDK
LEADTOOLS
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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ByteScout PDF Renderer SDK
ByteScout
Progressive and modern sophisticated technologies are included in the strategy of each product. Don’t hesitate to use source codes and documentation for learning and training purposes. We have abundant information for developers. If you still have questions, check our customer support. We always get messages from our customers happy about the support they got. You’ll receive toolkit improvements and main features updates on a regular basis. We try to implement suggestions from our customers. The products include a very friendly interface for real programmers. -
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ImageGear
Accusoft
This document and image clean up and processing toolkit allows developers to quickly integrate document handling functions like image conversion, creation, editing, manipulation, compression, and image enhancement to their applications. ImageGear gives your application the ability to clean up files including deskew, line and speckle removal, and more. In addition, ImageGear’s color processing tools allow you to enhance image quality resulting in a reduction in compressed file sizes. This document and image processing SDK includes a variety of APIs that enable image clean up and processing. Add functionality to your applications, learn how you can meet all your document lifecycle needs with ImageGear. This PDF SDK allows .NET developers to add robust PDF functionality to an application. Users can view, convert, annotate, compress, redact, insert, remove, or reorder pages. Learn about all of the PDF manipulation capabilities and discover how ImageGear PDF can enhance your application. -
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Image Viewer CP Pro SDK ActiveX
Viscom Software
It is a PDF Viewer and Document Viewer SDK, Export to PDF, Support Autofill PDF form fields ,Saves filled forms to new PDF file. Image processing, 1D and 2D Barcode Reader, Writer, DICOM and OCR with C#, C++, VB.NET, VB, Delphi, Vfp, MS Access. -
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jPDFViewer
Qoppa Software
Integrate a PDF reader right into your Java application or website. jPDFViewer is a self contained Java component that can be deployed in a Java application or a web application (in a web page as an applet, or a Java webstart application). Since it is written in Java, it allows your application to remain platform independent and run on Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix. jPDFViewer 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. Main Features: Read and display PDF files on any platform that supports Java Print PDF files Fill interactive PDF forms View all markup annotations Validates and displays digital signatures Text search and selection Advanced tools: zoom, loupe, snapshot, pan and zoom Easy navigation with different views: thumbnails, bookmarks, annotations... Customizable toolbar and user interface Support for all image typesStarting Price: $2,000 -
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Vanilla.PDF
Vanilla.PDF Labs
Vanilla.PDF is a powerful, modern, and open-source PDF processing toolkit designed to provide maximum flexibility while remaining easy to use. Whether you are building a small script or an enterprise-level application, Vanilla.PDF offers all the tools you need to create, modify, sign, and analyze PDF files with precision and efficiency. Our framework supports the entire range of PDF standards, including PDF 2.0 and archival formats such as PDF/A, as well as advanced PAdES electronic signatures with full PKCS#11 hardware token and smart card integration. This ensures compliance with the highest industry and legal standards for document authenticity and integrity. Vanilla.PDF is built with developers in mind — it offers a clean, well-documented API, accompanied by fully-featured examples that showcase practical real-world usage. This means you can integrate it into your projects quickly and reliably, with confidence that the results will meet the market’s highest expectations. -
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RadaeePDF SDK
RadaeePDF
This is the well-known SDK for Android, iOS and Windows UWP. Our team began its development in early 2012 and starting from May-2012 and we have never stopped improving it since. RadaeePDF Classic includes fully customizable frameworks respectively written in Java, Objective-C and C#. We complete the range with simplified Cordova and Xamarin plugins (Android and iOS). RadaeePDF Classic SDK has been adopted by more than 6000 SMB and large corporations in more than 8500 applications. Some of its included features are PDF read, different rendering layouts, support of PDF annotations, text search and extraction and dozens more. The Master Edition represents a huge step forward compared to the previous Classic version, and introduces advanced features like complete form fields manipulation, pdf linearization and optimization, xfdf import/export, signature and certificate handling, and much more. -
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Aspose.PDF
Aspose
Aspose.PDF provides the most complete set of PDF manipulation and parsing solution for developers & end-users. Aspose.PDF for .NET is an advanced PDF Processing API for .NET Core to perform document management and manipulation tasks within cross-platform applications. API can easily be used to generate, modify, convert, render, secure and print documents without using Adobe Acrobat. Moreover, API offers compression options, table creation & manipulation, graph & image functions, extensive hyperlink functionality, stamp and watermark tasks, extended security controls and custom font handling. Aspose.PDF for Java is a fast and lightweight processing API to create, modify, render, secure as well as print PDF files without the use of Adobe Acrobat. API also supports working with TXT, HTML, PCL, XML, XPS and image file formats. -
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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
