Pdftools

Pros: Managing pdf in an application doc workflow is often complex. You need a library where you can deliver the same tools as a user has on Adobe. Pdftools does this better than the key player in PDFs, which is crucial for my users.

Cons: C'est très bon. Voila. What else can I say? From a technical point of view, there is nothing to mention as a con.

Overall: Pdftools PDF library SDK is fast and working for me very well. It was so easy to add into my code and get it running from scratch.

Pros: Our product specialises on making it easy for our clients to convert a lot of file formats to PDF (eg. image, HTML, signatures). We introduced the Pdftools SDK about 2 years ago and since then, Pdftools is a valuable partner for us, hence this review.

Cons: Nothing to complain about at the moment. It was easy to integrate into our projects and has been reliable for all this time.

Overall: Overall the SDK has helped us give the best solutions for our clients applications. If you're looking for a solid SDK, I recommend to consider Pdftools as your #1 choice.

Pros: PDF Tools has a good product and team. It just works and has been doing that for the past year for me.

Cons: I haven't encountered any yet. It's a proprietary SDK so you need to have some money available, but the price isn't insane compared to others.

Overall: Good experience. I have a good relation with their Customer Success Manager and the contacts have been pleasant.

Pros: Quick PDF libraries and easy to setup.
Using the sign and secure functionality.
Works well in Javascript and as shell tool.

Cons: Nothing yet - it is pretty much what I expected and a good solution overall.

Overall: Does what it needs to do and was easy to integrate into my project. I started by downloading the Pdftools version in NuGet - for sure the easiest ways to get started.

Pros: Their SDK covers everything from text extraction to PDF manipulation. It's quick, even with bulky files, and the support documentation is great.

Cons: There's a bit to climb in terms of the learning curve, given its rich features.

Overall: Pdftools is a solid choice. Its performance and support really makes it worth considering for serious PDF-related development work. As a developer, it's given me a lot of flexibility and power in handling PDFs in my projects.

Pros: SDK has a ton of features out of the box. I also liked that I didn't need to sign up for the trial version, it was just there as free download.

Cons: Its a feature rich SDK, perhaps too many features for my use case.

Overall: Good experience. The documentation was great, but had a specific C# question that the team quickly responded to.

Pros: We used the PDF Optimizer from PDFTools to do that and it works really great! Out of all the others we've tried on the market is the one that reduces most, without losing quality.

Cons: Not one

Overall: We process huge volumes of documents. We needed to reduce PDF size to reduce costs for archiving. Even 1K makes a difference, because typically the cost is based on storage space, volume.

Pros: PDF compression to send large interactive PDFs to customers via email.
PDF/A conversion for long term archiving.

Cons: N/A.

Overall: We needed to send design documentation to customers, the docs are merged and convert to one interactive PDF. After merging files are large, ~ 500 pages. So we needed a solution to optimize the PDF without losing interactivity (JavaScript, fillable form elements).

And also to comply with the regulations, all documents must be issued in PDF format and for legal purposes, the documents must be readable, accessible for more than 10 years.

Pros: - PDF/A compliant and when the conversion was not possible, it returns the ouput explaining what is the problem with the PDF
- Also the ease of integration within our existing application
- Compression level was higher than other providers without losing quality

Cons: Nothing to say. It does what it says, better than expected

Overall: Their tools are crucial for us because we need to ensure high volumes of document processes.

Specially for the PDF to PDF/A convertor, their solution is crucial because other competitors don’t tell you if the conversion was complete or not which is a big issue.
Their software alert when something went wrong and what, that has made the biggest difference for us with Pdftools.

Pros: Fast libraries.
Quality conversion and compression.
Easy to deploy.
Complete package.
Supported my language.

Cons: Nothing noteworthy for now, have been in a free trial for now but will go paid soon.

Overall: Great PDF SDK, they are quite similar to other PDF SDKs out there but it worked fast for me. I’m using their compression, validation and archiving functionalities.