48 tools
PDF rendering library and command-line suite (pdftotext, pdfimages, pdftoppm, pdftocairo, pdftohtml, pdftops, pdfinfo, pdffonts, pdfdetach, pdfattach, pdfseparate, pdfunite, pdfsig) covering text/image extraction, page rendering, format conversion, metadata, attachments, and signature verification.
Command LinePDF viewer plus command-line tools (pdftotext, pdftops, pdftoppm, pdftopng, pdftohtml, pdfinfo, pdfimages, pdffonts, pdfdetach) for viewing PDFs and converting them to text, PostScript, image, or HTML, plus metadata, image, font, and attachment extraction.
Command LineCommand-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.
Command LineLightweight C library, viewer, and CLI toolset for PDF, XPS, and e-book formats: renders and extracts text/images/metadata/structured content; creates, splits, merges, and compresses PDFs; adds annotations (highlights, stamps, shapes); permanently redacts content; digitally signs documents; converts between PDF, SVG, PNG, HTML, and PostScript; and embeds into web pages/apps.
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.
Open-source .NET PDF document management/storage application: full-text-indexed search across a single-user SQLite database or a shared multi-user (on-premises or cloud) database; bulk or automated upload via watched folders; metadata tagging (title, author, subject, category, keywords); PDF bursting; document-state flags; and notes viewing/editing alongside search-term snippets.
C#Fluent-API PDF generation library for .NET: page layout, headers/footers, tables, columns, sections, watermarks, text/fonts/colors/backgrounds/borders, images, SVG, alignment/padding/scaling/rotation/layering, loops/conditionals/reusable components for data-driven documents, merging, encryption, metadata, page extraction, and PDF/A, PDF/UA, and EN 16931 (e-invoicing) compliance.
C++Command-line tool (built on the Xpdf library) that extracts per-word text with bounding-box coordinates (top/left/width/height) from every page of a PDF and outputs it as structured JSON, along with page dimensions and page count.
Generates PDFs from Clojure data structures: text/typography with custom TTF fonts, CSS-like stylesheets, lists, tables, multi-column layouts, SVG and image embedding, bar/line/pie charts, headers/footers, page numbering, document metadata, file attachments, and watermarks.
GoGo library/CLI/HTTP service that converts PDF, DOC, DOCX, XML, HTML, RTF, ODT, Pages, and image files to plain text and metadata (JSON), with optional OCR support (via Tesseract, built with the `ocr` tag) for image-based input.
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.
JavaContent-analysis toolkit that detects file types and extracts text and metadata from over a thousand file formats (including PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX) through a single parsing interface; supports OCR (via Tesseract), language detection, named-entity recognition, and parsing of embedded documents/attachments. Available as a Java library, CLI (tika-app), or REST server (tika-server).
JavaScriptDependency-free JavaScript library (works in browsers, Node, Deno, React Native) to create PDFs from scratch or modify existing ones: add/insert/remove/copy pages, draw text (with embedded custom fonts), images (PNG/JPEG), vector graphics and SVG paths; create and fill AcroForm fields (text, checkbox, radio, dropdown) and read/flatten them; embed pages from other PDFs, split and merge documents, add file attachments, and read/set document metadata.
Node.js library/CLI (built on Mozilla's pdf.js engine) that converts PDFs to JSON: extracts text (with position, rotation, styling, color, and font metadata), page layout, and interactive AcroForm field data (text inputs, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns, signature fields); also outputs plain-text files, and runs as a REST service or stream-based parser.
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.
JavaScriptNode.js wrapper around PDFtk, Ghostscript, and ImageMagick for PDF manipulation: split/select/reorder/reverse pages, filter even/odd pages, join multiple PDFs, rotate (90/180/270/360°), crop (noted as unreliable), extract text and embedded images, extract metadata/properties, and render pages to PNG at a given DPI.
JavaScriptZotero plugin that translates PDFs, EPubs, webpages, metadata, annotations, and notes via 20+ pluggable translation services: popup translation on text selection, adding translations to annotation comments, translating item titles/abstracts, single-word dictionary lookups, sentence-by-sentence mode, and a standalone multi-service comparison window.
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.
PerlComponent of Image::ExifTool that reads metadata from PDF files, including support for PDF-1.5 object streams (limited Filter/Predictor algorithms) and all standard PDF encryption methods through PDF-2.0 (including AESV2/AES-128 and AESV3/AES-256).
PerlThin CLI wrapper that reports a PDF's page dimensions: extracts the first page with pdftk, converts it to JPEG via ImageMagick, then measures it with imgsize.
Pure-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.
PHPParses PDF objects/headers to extract text (page by page) and metadata (author, description, etc.), with support for compressed PDFs, Mac OS Roman charset encoding, and hex/octal-encoded text. Does not support secured/encrypted documents or form data extraction.
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.
Converts PDFs (via ImageMagick + Ghostscript) to JPG/JPEG/PNG/WebP images: render specific or all pages, control quality/DPI/dimensions/background color, read page count and page dimensions, and handle password-protected PDFs (requires ImageMagick 7).
PythonPythonic wrapper around qpdf for reading, writing, and manipulating PDFs: merge, split, rotate, rearrange, and delete pages; read/write XMP and DocumentInfo metadata (auto-synced); losslessly extract or replace embedded images (preserving original JPEG compression); open password-protected files and save with RC4, AES-128, or AES-256 encryption (or remove it); linearize for 'fast web view'; direct object-level/content-stream access; automatic repair on open; access to qpdf's Job API; and Jupyter notebook preview rendering.
PythonPython library (built on pdfminer, lxml, and pyquery) for scraping PDF data using jQuery-like or XPath selectors: select elements by bounding-box location or text content, bulk-extract multiple fields at once, target specific page ranges, batch-process multiple PDFs, and cache parsed results for speed.
Pure-Python PDF library: split, merge, crop, and transform pages; add passwords/encryption and decrypt (with optional AES support); read and add metadata; extract text; read and create annotations; and attach custom data/viewer settings. Companion CLI tool `pdfly` offers additional command-line operations.
PythonPure-Python CLI (companion to pypdf) with commands including 2-up/booklet page layout, cat (extract/merge pages), check-sign (verify signatures), compress/uncompress, extract-annotated-pages, extract-images, extract-links, extract-text, meta/pagemeta, rm (delete pages), rotate, sign, update-offsets (repair simple PDFs), and x2pdf (convert other formats to PDF pages).
PythonPDF watermark-removal library/CLI targeting academic-publisher watermarks (institution names, personal identifiers, IP addresses, timestamps) for AIP, IEEE, JSTOR, RSC, and SPIE papers; also removes arbitrary user-specified strings from page content and/or XMP/DocInfo metadata, with in-place overwrite support.
PythonExtracts text (with layout preservation, tolerance settings, regex search, and word bounding boxes), detects and extracts tables (via ruling-line or text-alignment strategies), and provides low-level access to characters, lines, rectangles, curves, images, annotations, hyperlinks, and form fields, with page cropping/filtering, password-protected PDF support, and visual debugging (page-to-image rendering with overlay annotations, incl. Jupyter display). Does not generate, modify, or OCR PDFs.
PythonAdds a searchable OCR text layer beneath page images and produces a validated PDF/A file: deskews crooked pages, optionally cleans images pre-OCR, optimizes/compresses images, recognizes 100+ languages via Tesseract, rotates misrotated pages, edits output metadata, parallelizes across CPU cores, and processes multi-thousand-page files in place.
PythonCLI tool and Python package that extracts metadata (creation date, creator, page count, producer) and detects references (other PDFs, URLs, DOIs, arXiv IDs) within a PDF, with parallel downloading of referenced PDFs, plain-text extraction, and broken-hyperlink detection; outputs plain text or JSON, and accepts local files or URLs.
Reads and writes PDFs: subset/merge/rotate pages, modify metadata, build reusable Form XObjects, N-up and booklet layouts, watermarking (overlay/underlay), image and Form-XObject extraction, poster-sized output, and splitting 2-up PDFs; integrates with ReportLab (embedding existing PDF content into newly generated documents) and rst2pdf. No encryption/decryption support, and limited compression-filter support (external tools like pdftk needed for full decompression).
Simplified fork/UI re-think of Mayan EDMS aimed at home users: scans, indexes, and archives paper documents for later retrieval, with a reduced feature set compared to the underlying Mayan EDMS platform.
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.
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).
RubyLow-level Ruby library for programmatic PDF access (not a renderer): document version, metadata/info, and page count; per-page text and font extraction; raw page content access; direct PDF object access via ObjectHash; custom receiver objects to walk page rendering programs; UTF-8 text normalization; and Ascii85 stream decoding.
RubyCLI utility and Ruby library that extracts searchable UTF-8 plain text from documents, generates page images and thumbnails in any format, splits documents into single-page or full PDFs, and extracts metadata (title, author, page count).
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.
RubyRuby library built on Apache Tika that extracts text, metadata (as a hash, e.g. Content-Type), and MIME type from PDFs, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument, Apple iWork, and RTF files; accepts local paths, remote URLs, streams, or raw binary data as input.
PDF::Reader-based analysis library (built primarily to support Prawn's test suite, but usable on any PDF) that extracts text as an array of per-operation string fragments and counts document pages.
RubyRuby gem (using ImageMagick and Ghostscript) that extracts a PDF page as an image (e.g. PNG) or as page text, reports total page count, and iterates all pages in batch, with configurable image width/density/quality/colorspace/alpha and custom processor paths.
Pure-Ruby framework for parsing, modifying, and creating PDF files, with lazy on-demand parsing: compression filters with predictors, RC4/AES encryption (including Revision 6), digital signatures and usage rights, file attachments, AcroForm/XFA forms, and object streams. Ships CLI tools including `pdfcop` for detecting dangerous PDF content (not a full malware-analysis/forensics suite by the author's own description) plus decompression, decryption, encryption, resource-extraction, and metadata-inspection utilities.
Ruby-GNOME project's binding of poppler-glib, exposing Poppler's PDF rendering/parsing capabilities (text/image extraction, rendering, metadata) to Ruby. Requires the system poppler-glib library.
RustRust library to read, manipulate, and write PDF files: stable reading with examples for extracting content/metadata/names/text, plus Pathfinder integration for rendering and a companion `inspect-prim` tool for hierarchically exploring PDF structure. Modification and writing support are still experimental.