Compare the Top On-Premises PDF SDK as of December 2025

What is On-Premises PDF SDK?

PDF SDKs (Software Development Kits) provide developers with the tools and libraries needed to integrate PDF functionality into their applications or websites. These SDKs offer features like viewing, editing, creating, converting, and annotating PDFs, allowing developers to build custom PDF solutions tailored to their needs. PDF SDKs often include APIs for manipulating text, images, and form data, as well as for handling document security, such as encryption and password protection. By using PDF SDKs, developers can add robust PDF capabilities to their software without having to build these features from scratch, saving time and resources. Compare and read user reviews of the best On-Premises PDF SDK currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Apryse PDF SDK
    Apryse (formerly PDFTron) powers the future of document technology. We help businesses, developers, and enterprises handle documents with unmatched speed, accuracy, and security. Whether running in secure server environments or delivering seamless web-based experiences, Apryse makes document workflows smarter and easier. With Apryse, you can: Embed powerful document features directly into your apps — from viewing and editing to collaboration and compliance. Run at enterprise scale on secure server infrastructure, ensuring reliability without cloud dependencies. Deliver seamless in-browser document experiences with responsive, accessible, and feature-rich web capabilities. Trusted globally, Apryse empowers organizations to simplify operations, enhance productivity, and create exceptional document experiences.
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    Nutrient SDK
    Nutrient 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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    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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    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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    CAD6engine

    CAD6engine

    Malz++Kassner GmbH

    Use CAD6engine as your programming library (SDK) to output technical and financial data, raster images, process and text information, SVG graphics, or the content of DWG and DXF files to high-quality PDF files (of course without using the limited Windows printer interface or GDI). Create high-resolution PDFs with Unicode texts, layers, transparencies, and support for various colors models (RGB/HSB, CMYK, gray, CIELab). Convert SVG to DXF/DWG files and vice versa. Combine various graphical files into one document, add objects and text, and print it. With full control over all parameters. Integrated into your program, running completely in the background, or optionally presenting a full-fledged graphical user interface. CAD6engine is addressed to C++ developers with basic knowledge of C++ and Win32/x64 topics. CAD6engine may also be used with other compilers that support the supplied C++ compatible dynamic link library MKCAD6engine.dll and the corresponding MKCAD6engine.lib.
    Starting Price: 195 EUR per 10 users
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    Adobe PDF Library SDK

    Adobe PDF Library SDK

    Datalogics Inc.

    Developers rely on Datalogics to provide the most comprehensive PDF SDKs in the industry. We are SOC 2 Type 2 certified. Global OEMs, SaaS and enterprise end-users rely on Adobe PDF Library to automate the creation, editing and management of PDFs. An Adobe partner, our SDK uses the same source code as Acrobat for stability, reliability and quality results. Flexible programming language and platform options include .NET, .NET Framework, Java and C/C++ on Windows, Linux, MacOS; NuGet & Maven; pdfRest API Toolkit Container option. Our extensive documentation includes getting started guides, API references, and hundreds of sample code examples on GitHub to help developers precisely create and define PDF workflow solutions. Free trial with proof of concept support, join us on Discord or use our AI assistant for help, or set up a time to talk to one of our engineers about your project. Our expertise and support is the reason we have a 91% customer retention rate.
    Starting Price: $5,999
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    ComPDFKit PDF SDK

    ComPDFKit PDF SDK

    PDF Technologies, Inc.

    ComPDFKit PDF SDK offers a top-quality PDF SDK and PDF API for developers or companies. It allows them to integrate PDF editing, annotating, converting, form filling, digital signing, comparing, measuring, and redacting into any device. Product Details of ComPDF: - ComPDFKit PDF SDK Our PDF SDK renders PDFs at the fastest speed and provides rich and reliable functionalities including viewing, markup, content & page editing, digital & electronic signing, form filling, OCR, comparing, measuring, etc., satisfying the needs of processing PDFs in different scenarios. - ComPDFKit Conversion SDK Support Convert PDF to or from Word, Excel, PPT, TXT, RTF, PNG, JPG, HTML, JSON, markdown, searchable PDF, etc. - ComIDP ComIDP is the intelligent document processing, allow companies to integrate for unstructured data extracting, knowledge base building, AI Q&A, image pre-processing, PDF parsing, PDF data extraction, PDF table extraction, etc.
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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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    PDF Xpansion SDK

    PDF Xpansion SDK

    soft Xpansion GmbH & Co. KG

    The PDF Xpansion SDK 17 provides features, methods and functionality that let software developers create PDF and PDF/A enabled applications and software solutions. It offers a wide range of options for creating and editing PDF, PDF/A and XPS documents, for displaying and printing them on paper, for conversions between these formats, exporting and/or importing from/to other file formats. Moreover, PDF Xpansion SDK 17 comes with eInvoicing functionality for the formats ZUGFeRD, Factur-X and XRechnung. It enables software developers to integrate EU-compliant electronic invoicing functionality (creation, display and reading of electronic invoices) according to EU standard 16931 in applications. The SDK is made to integrate those functions into both Windows desktop applications for the PC and for Windows Apps. The pricing model is very flexible, since it allows a modularized purchase of separate functionality, so that only those features have to be paid for that are really needed.
    Starting Price: €500 (one-time & royalty free)
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    iText

    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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    Aquaforest SDK

    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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