MuPDF

CTested

Lightweight, fast C library, desktop viewer, and CLI toolset for PDF, XPS, and e-book formats, built by Artifex around the same rendering core used in Ghostscript. Renders pages and extracts text/images/metadata/structured content; creates, splits, merges, and compresses PDFs; adds annotations (highlights, stamps, shapes); permanently redacts content; and digitally signs documents. Converts between PDF, SVG, PNG, HTML, and PostScript, and embeds into web pages and native apps via its library bindings.

AGPL v3-or-later, with commercial licensing available from Artifex.

Sample Results

Real output from running this tool against a sample PDF, as part of PDFog's open-source PDF tooling benchmark.

Input: sample-brochure.pdf

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mutool draw -F txt "sample-brochure.pdf" >"sample-brochure--mupdf-c.txt"

Output: sample-brochure--mupdf-c.txt

$1,000,000

221 Queen Street, Melbourne VIC 3000

apartment
2
1
1

Prince Cascading

1234-5678

Additional Information

Land Size

House Size

Map Ref.

Energy Rating

Council Rates

Water Rates

1171m2

-

-

-

-

-

WARM BEAUTIFUL APARTMENT

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc turpis ante, fermentum ac
cursus vitae, tempus vel ipsum. Proin justo lorem, mattis sed pharetra ac, vehicula
tincidunt sem. Mauris est leo, scelerisque at gravida vel, interdum quis felis. Nullam
nibh magna, consectetur eu aliquet ac, sollicitudin eget nisl. Praesent nibh tellus,
elementum ut scelerisque a, pretium eget libero. Morbi sodales tincidunt turpis et
sagittis. Aenean sed dictum nisi.

Phasellus quis metus lectus. Donec varius pellentesque purus, et ornare enim
pellentesque sed. Morbi quam augue, pulvinar sit amet mollis in, euismod porta orci.
Quisque rutrum egestas enim ac viverra. Mauris blandit tristique feugiat. Ut molestie
molestie turpis sed elementum. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Maecenas in nunc odio. Nunc sagittis, mi ut ornare pellentesque, orci augue dapibus
est, vel rutrum elit orci vel augue.

stext.json: structured JSON with per-word/line/block bounding boxes and font info, distinct from the plain-text dump above.

mutool draw -F stext.json "sample-brochure.pdf" >"sample-brochure--mupdf-c--stext.json"

Output: sample-brochure--mupdf-c--stext.json

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