38 tools
Command-line tool to merge, split, and rotate PDFs; fill forms with FDF/XFDF data and flatten them (or generate an FDF stencil); encrypt/decrypt with passwords; add watermarks/stamps; manage bookmarks, metadata, and attachments; repair damaged PDFs; and recompress page streams.
CANSI C library for generating PDFs from scratch: lines, text, and images (PNG/JPEG with CMYK/alpha/CCITT support); Type1/TrueType/CJK font embedding; outlines, text and link annotations; document encryption; Deflate compression; and PDF/A-1b compliant output.
CWrapper script for `groff` that produces PDF documents, including support for a cover page and table of contents.
C#PDFsharp creates and processes PDFs on the fly using GDI+-style drawing routines (text, images, shapes) shared across screen, PDF, and metafile output. MigraDoc layers an object model on top (paragraphs, tables, charts, sections, styles) with automatic pagination, bookmarks, tables of contents, and indexes, rendering to PDF or RTF.
C#Reads and extracts text, words, letters (with position/font data), images, annotations, hyperlinks, embedded files, and bookmarks from PDFs (port of PDFBox); performs layout/reading-order analysis; supports basic PDF creation, merging, read-only AcroForm inspection, and opening password-protected documents.
C#Free GUI front-end for the PDFtk command-line tool on Windows: split, merge, stamp, add page numbers, rotate, edit metadata, bookmarks, and attachments — all via a graphical interface over PDFtk.
Converts PDF to HTML while preserving text/layout fidelity (native positioned text with original fonts), producing a single self-contained file or a paged on-demand-loading version; carries over hyperlinks, outlines/bookmarks, SVG backgrounds, Type 3 and CJK fonts, and print support. Built on Poppler and FontForge; this pdf2htmlEX/pdf2htmlEX fork continues the original coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX as an open community effort.
C++Free, open-source desktop publishing (DTP) application for laying out newspapers, brochures, newsletters, posters, and books, with professional-grade PDF export: PDF/X-3 and PDF/X-4 support, native PDF 1.6 output with embedded OpenType fonts, transparency and encryption, and interactive PDF form fields, annotations, and bookmarks.
C++KDE's universal document viewer: reads PDF (via Poppler), EPUB, DjVU, Markdown, images, and CBR/CBZ comics; adds inline and popup annotations, highlights, underlines, and freehand text; views and verifies embedded digital signatures and can sign PDFs; text selection with a magnifier tool; thumbnail navigation and an auto-generated table of contents.
GoGo package (rsc.io/pdf) for reading PDF files: opens (optionally password-encrypted) files, reads the page tree, outline/bookmarks, per-page fonts and their metrics, and low-level page content (text runs and drawn rectangles) via a low-level Value/object API. A known unpatched stack-overflow DoS vulnerability is reported against it (GO-2026-5781).
Go library for generating PDFs: text with UTF-8/RTL support, standard/TrueType/Type1 fonts, JPEG/PNG/GIF/TIFF images and basic SVG, vector graphics (lines, Bézier curves, arcs, gradients, transparency), barcodes, charts, outline bookmarks, internal/external links, page templates and importing existing PDFs as templates, layers, document protection/encryption, and file attachments/annotations.
Go PDF processor (CLI + library) supporting PDF up to 2.0 (ISO 32000-2): validate, optimize, split, trim, and merge PDFs; encrypt/decrypt; resize, rotate, and crop pages; extract/manipulate images, fonts, and metadata; manage attachments and portfolios; validate, report, and remove digital signatures; add/remove stamps and watermarks; process forms, bookmarks, and annotations; and generate booklets, N-up/N-down layouts, grids, and posters.
JavaScriptPDF generation library (Node and browser) with an HTML5-canvas-like vector graphics API (paths, SVG path parsing, gradients, transformations), text with line-wrapping and bulleted lists, embedded/subsetted TrueType/OpenType/WOFF/WOFF2 fonts, JPEG/PNG image embedding, tables, annotations (links, notes, highlights), AcroForms, document outlines, encryption with granular permission controls, and Tagged-PDF/PDF-UA accessibility support.
JavaScriptDeclarative, pure-JavaScript (client/server) PDF generation library: text with line-wrapping/alignment, numbered/bulleted lists, page breaks and sections, tables (auto/fixed/star column widths, spanning, repeating headers, multi-column snaking layouts), images and vector graphics, static/dynamic headers and footers, background layers, custom page size/orientation/margins, embedded fonts, table of contents, and PDF metadata.
JavaScriptDisplays existing PDFs in React apps (built on PDF.js): renders pages via `<Document>`/`<Page>` with canvas, custom, or no rendering; shows outline/table of contents and thumbnails; selectable text and annotation/link layers; form rendering; page rotation and zoom; password-protected PDF handling; JPEG2000 and non-Latin (cMap) support. (Complementary to @react-pdf/renderer, which creates PDFs rather than displaying them.)
Objective-COpen-source (BSD) macOS PDF reader and note-taker for reading and annotating scientific papers: adding/editing notes and highlights (with one-swipe highlighting), exporting notes as text, TOC/thumbnail navigation with visual history, full-screen presentation mode with transitions, snapshots, bookmarks, Spotlight search, LaTeX/SyncTeX/PDFSync integration, BibDesk compatibility, Keychain-saved passwords, and extensive AppleScript support.
PerlPerl module for creating and modifying PDFs: page management (add/insert/import pages, page labels); built-in and embedded (TrueType/OpenType/Type1/bitmap) fonts; image import (GIF/JPEG/PNG/PNM/TIFF); barcode generation (Code128, Code39, EAN-13, QR, Codabar, ITF); spot/device colorspaces and custom color palettes; document metadata; outlines/bookmarks; and viewer preferences/page layout modes.
PerlPerl module for building PDFs by reusing existing pages as templates/backgrounds: adds positioned/rotated text, embeds JPEG images, hyperlinks, and raw PDF operators; supports built-in and embedded TrueType (UTF-8) fonts, hierarchical bookmarks, attached/embedded JavaScript actions, form field value assignment, and content stream compression.
PerlPure-Perl (PDF 1.0–1.3), dependency-free module for creating PDFs: multi-page documents with standard paper sizes and page rotation/crop/bleed/trim boxes; built-in PostScript fonts with Unicode/international character support; lines, GIF/JPEG image embedding, and clickable URI link annotations; hierarchical outline/table of contents; and document metadata.
Writes and reads OOXML (Word 2007+), ODF (ODT), RTF, HTML, and PDF documents: sections with headers/footers/page numbering, styled text runs and paragraphs, tables, images (local/remote/watermark), drawing shapes, charts (pie/bar/line/area/scatter/radar), OLE objects, TOCs, footnotes/endnotes, form fields, lists, template-based generation, and XSL transforms.
PHPUTF-8/RTL text with TrueType/OpenType/Type1/CID-0 font support and subsetting; HTML/CSS and SVG rendering with multi-column layouts, headers/footers, bookmarks, and TOC; JPEG/PNG/SVG images (plus GIF/BMP/TIFF/etc. via GD); RC4/AES-256 encryption; PAdES/PKCS#7 digital signatures with RFC 3161 TSA timestamps and LTV; PDF/A, PDF/X, and PDF/UA compliance modes; page import/reordering; AcroForm fields; and companion-package barcode support.
PHPGenerates PDFs from UTF-8 HTML (including CJK content): headers/footers, page numbering, TOC, color handling, embedded fonts, zlib-compressed output, XML-driven charset conversion, basic SVG, and optional barcode generation (via bcmath). Notably lacks state-of-the-art CSS support compared to headless-Chrome-based alternatives.
PHPConverts XML (or Markdown) documents to PDF or images (JPEG/PNG via GD/Imagick/Gmagick) with HTML-like tags (div, p, table, headings, lists, images, links); supports auto-breakable/fixed pages, multi-column layouts, headers/footers/watermarks, page numbering, metadata, internal/external links, bookmarks, sticky notes, barcodes (via Zend), simple pie charts, borders, backgrounds, rotation/transparency, and stylesheets; usable via web or CLI, with Symfony2 integration.
PHP wrapper around wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltoimage that generates PDFs or image snapshots/thumbnails from URLs or HTML, merges multiple URLs into a single PDF, supports XSL-based tables of contents, and passes through wkhtmltox options (page size, margins, cookies, JS); includes Symfony, Laravel, and Zend Framework integrations.
PHPLaravel wrapper around mPDF: renders Blade views to PDF with data binding, custom headers/footers with page numbering, custom TTF fonts, document permission protection (copy/print/modify/extract/assemble), and per-file config overrides, with output via string, save, download, or browser stream.
Converts scanned-book PDFs to Markdown or EPUB using OCR (DeepSeek OCR locally, or DeepSeek/Baidu vendor backends), recognizing complex structure including tables and formulas; extracts body text while filtering headers/footers, preserves footnotes/images/assets, auto-generates an EPUB table of contents (optionally LLM-enhanced), and offers configurable table (HTML/image) and formula (MathML/SVG/image) rendering. Runs fully offline as of v1.0.0.
PythonPure-Python, batch-mode document processor that renders reStructuredText or CommonMark to PDF (and can run as a Sphinx builder in place of LaTeX): page layout with columns, running headers/footers, floats and footnotes; auto-generated TOC and index; auto-numbered/cross-referenced headings, figures, and tables; OpenType/TrueType/Type1 fonts with kerning/ligatures/small-caps (incl. 1000+ bundled Google Fonts); embedded PDF/PNG/JPEG images with preserved transparency/color profiles; and optional math typesetting.
PythonPython wrapper around wkhtmltopdf: converts HTML from URLs, files, or strings (single or multiple at once) to PDF, with configurable wkhtmltopdf options, TOC generation, cover pages, external CSS, and HTML meta-tag-based settings.
Pure-Python PDF-1.7 parser/extraction library: text, images, HTML, or hOCR output with exact text location/font/color data; AcroForm and tagged-content extraction; outline/TOC extraction; embedded image extraction (JPG, PNG, TIFF, JBIG2, bitmaps); CJK and vertical-writing support; Type1/TrueType/Type3/CID fonts; RC4/AES decryption; and decoding of ASCIIHex/ASCII85/LZW/Flate/RunLength/CCITTFax compression filters.
PythonOriginal PDFMiner: text extraction with location/font/size data, layout analysis, format conversion (HTML/XML), outline (TOC) extraction, RC4/AES decryption, and multi-font/CJK support.
Python bindings for MuPDF covering text extraction (plain, rich dictionary with font/size/color/bbox, HTML/XML, raw blocks, table-to-Markdown); embedded image extraction and high-DPI page rendering to Pixmaps; Tesseract-based OCR (100+ languages); reading/writing annotations (highlights, notes, stamps, ink) and redactions (with permanent apply); AcroForm reading and filling; page insert/delete/reorder, merge/split, and metadata editing; PDF creation and Markdown-to-PDF conversion; password protection/RC4/AES encryption; hyperlink and cross-reference handling; and outline/bookmark read-write.
PythonPython ctypes bindings to Google's PDFium: renders pages to images, extracts text, reads metadata/bookmarks/page properties, creates new PDFs and inserts images/pages, and searches for text — with both convenience helper classes and raw PDFium API access.
PythonUnicode TrueType font subset embedding, cell/multi-cell/plaintext writing with automatic page breaks, optional Markdown-like text styling, image embedding with transparency, SVG import, arbitrary path drawing, table generation, internal/external links, barcodes/charts/emoji, document encryption and digital signing, annotations (highlights, file attachments), HTML-to-PDF conversion, basic math rendering, and TOC/outline generation.
RR bindings for extracting content from PDFs: `pdf_text()` for per-page text, `pdf_info()` for metadata (author, creation date, tags), `pdf_toc()` for table of contents/section headers, `pdf_fonts()` for font info, embedded-attachment access, and `pdf_render_page()` to rasterize pages to bitmap (e.g. PNG/WEBP). Does not handle table extraction (recommends the `tabulizer`/`tabulapdf` package) or OCR of scanned text (recommends the `tesseract` package).
RubyPure-Ruby PDF generation library: vector drawing (lines, polygons, curves, ellipses); flowing text with inline formatting, builtin/embedded TrueType fonts, UTF-8, RTL, and fallback fonts; PNG/JPG image embedding; a basic grid layout system; encryption and password protection; repeatable headers/footers/page numbers; PDF outlines; and low-level PDF object access for extensions. Explicitly not an HTML-to-PDF generator, though it offers limited inline styling.
RubyRuby framework that converts Markdown (with ERB templating) into PDF (via Prince XML), EPUB, Mobi, and HTML e-books: auto-generated tables of contents from headings, Rouge syntax highlighting, custom @font-face fonts, book-layout stylesheets per format, frontmatter metadata/variables, and pre/post-render content hooks.
RubyPDF library and CLI (positioned as a pdftk/Poppler-utils alternative): creates PDFs from scratch with vector drawing, JPEG/PNG/PDF image embedding, and TrueType text with subsetting; a high-level document composition engine (automatic layout, text flow, page breaks, lists, multi-column, reusable styles); modifies and merges existing PDFs; creates AcroForms with Adobe-like appearances; adds annotations, outlines, and file attachments; extracts metadata/text/images/files; encrypts (incl. PDF 2.0 AES-256) and digitally signs; and optimizes file size with object validation.
RubyCLI tool that converts GitHub-Markup-supported markup files (Markdown, Textile, etc., except roff) to PDF via wkhtmltopdf: embeds images (local/relative/remote), CodeRay syntax highlighting with a GitHub theme, custom CSS, Jekyll front-matter stripping, cover-page generation, direct wkhtmltopdf option passthrough (TOC, page numbering), and Docker support.