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Open-Source Rust PDF Software

2 open-source PDF tools written in Rust.

Rust

Tectonic

Cli

Modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine powered by XeTeX and TeXLive, used by pandoc as one of its PDF-producing engines.

Rust

pdf-rs

Library

Rust 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.