30 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 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#This is the source code of the well-known PDFCreator from `pdfforge`. PDFCreator works like a virtual printer that converts any printable application's output to PDF, and (per pdfforge's product page) supports merging/reordering pages, password/digital-signature protection, PDF/A archiving, cover pages, and automated actions (FTP upload, email, scripting).
C#Free, portable PDF splitting/merging utility (library, console, and GUI); also converts JPG images to PDF.
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.
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++Low-level, content-preserving PDF structure tool: linearizes ('fast web view'), encrypts/decrypts, splits and merges files, inspects/edits PDF object structure, and repairs damaged files. Explicitly does not render pages or extract text/content.
RR bindings for the qpdf C++ library, exposing content-preserving PDF transformations from R: splitting, combining/merging, and compressing PDF files (e.g. `pdf_compress()`). Does not read PDF content itself — the maintainers point to the 'pdftools' R package for text/data extraction.
GoGo PDF library (pure Go): generates reports/invoices with styled text and tables; creates and fills forms; merges, splits, reorders, and rotates pages (incl. N-up layouts); extracts text (with position/formatting), images, and tabular data to CSV; adds/converts images to PDF; removes or adds password protection; validates and applies digital signatures; compresses/optimizes files; adds watermarks; and supports CCITTFax/JBIG2 image decoding.
GoGo 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.
JavaAndroid PDF toolkit centered on creating PDFs from camera/gallery images (and converting text files to PDF), plus managing existing PDFs: merge, split, compress, remove/rearrange/rotate pages, extract images, and encrypt/decrypt.
JavaSelf-hostable PDF toolkit with 50+ tools: edit, merge, split, sign, redact, and convert PDFs; OCR scanned pages; compress files; validate signatures; apply watermarks; and automate workflows via no-code pipelines, a REST API, and webhooks. Offered as a browser-based UI, desktop client, or self-hosted server (incl. air-gapped deployment).
JavaJava library and CLI toolset covering PDF creation from scratch (with embedded fonts/images); Unicode text extraction; splitting and merging; form field extraction and filling; PDF/A-1b validation via Preflight; rendering pages to PNG/JPEG; printing via the Java printing API; and digital signing.
JavaFree, cross-platform desktop app (JavaFX, self-contained with bundled JRE since v4) for splitting, merging, mixing, rotating, and extracting pages from PDF files.
JavaCreate and manipulate PDFs, merge documents, digitally sign, create/fill AcroForm fields, PDF/A and PDF/UA generation, encryption (incl. FIPS-compliant crypto), barcode generation, SVG embedding, content redaction, and (via separate add-ons) OCR and HTML/CSS-to-PDF conversion.
Dependency-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 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.
JavaScriptNode.js/browser library that merges multiple PDF documents (or selected parts/pages of them) into a single new PDF.
PerlPerl module (PDF 1.0–1.5) for reading and writing PDFs: extract/delete/duplicate pages, get page text/content trees, append/prepend pages from other PDFs, handle password-protected documents and permissions, list/add fonts, list/fill form fields, remove annotations, detect linearized PDFs, remove unused objects, and apply compression filters.
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.
PythonSmall python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. A GUI front-end for pikepdf; can also import images into a PDF when img2pdf is installed.
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.
PythonPure-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).
PythonReads 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).
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.
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.
RubyPure-Ruby (no external dependencies) library to merge PDFs, extract and recombine specific pages, overlay watermarks/stamps (e.g. logos), and add customizable page numbering; parses PDFs from files, memory, or remote sources. The maintainer has stepped back from active maintenance and is seeking a new steward.