Browse by Functionality


- +PDF Viewing and Rendering
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PDFNet SDK offers one of the most complete and flexible solution for developers looking to embed PDF viewing and rendering functionality on various platforms.
SilverDox SDK offers PDF viewing capability in Silverlight applications.
PDF2Image offers a very simple interface for PDF to image conversion.
- +PDF Printing
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PDFNet SDK offers a simple and flexible solution for developers looking to embed PDF printing capability in their .NET, JAVA, and C/C++ solutions.
- +PDF Content Extraction and PDF Conversion
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PDFNet SDK offers full control over PDF parsing and content extraction and can be used to implement custom PDF converters and PDF processing applications.
PDFNet SDK includes built-in conversion from PDF to various raster formats (e.g. JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, GIF), text, XPS, SVG, EMF/WMF, PDF/A. Similarly the Convert API allows developers to convert from any printable document (e.g. XPS, XAML, EMF, MS Office, HTML, text, and raster formats) to PDF, XPS, or SVG.
Besides PDFNet SDK, PDFTron offers an array of specialized command-line utilities that can be used to convert and repurpose PDF content:
- PDF2Text - Extracts text from PDF files.
- PDF2Image - Converts PDF to JPEG, PNG, TIFF, or BMP.
- PDF2SVG - Converts PDF to SVG.
- PDF2XPS - Converts PDF to XPS.
- XPSConvert - Converts XPS to PDF.
- PDF/A Manager - Converts existing PDF documents to PDF/A (ISO 19005-1) format.
- +PDF Editing
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PDFNet SDK allows developers to manipulate every aspect of existing PDF documents. For example, it is possible to edit graphical elements on a page, to split and merge PDF, to manipulate annotations and bookmarks, to change security settings and metadata, to optimize existing files, etc.
PDF PageMaster Command-Line utility and SDK offers a simple interface for splitting and merging PDF pages that doesn't require much programming.
PDFCosEdit is a low-level PDF editor aimed at developers and PDF professionals.
PDFSecure Command-Line utility and SDK offers a very simple to use interface for securing or changing security permissions on existing PDF files.
- +PDF Page Manipulation (PDF Split and Merge)
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PDFNet SDK is a general purpose PDF toolkit that allows developers to split and merge PDF pages as well as to perform any other type of PDF page manipulation.
PDF PageMaster Command-Line utility and SDK offers a simple interface for splitting and merging PDF pages that doesn't require much programming.
- +PDF Forms
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PDFNet SDK allows developers to programmatically fill-in and extract data from PDF forms, to flatten form fields, and to split form data as FDF/XFDF. PDFNet SDK also includes a built-in PDF viewer that supports interactive form filling and markup.
- +PDF/A Conversion and Validation
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PDFNet SDK offers built-in PDF/A validation and conversion functionality which is fully integrated with other APIs (such as PDF creation or editing). PDFNet SDK also includes PDF viewing and rendering controls that can be configured to run in PDF/A complaint mode.
PDF/A Manager Command-Line utility and SDK offer a simple interface for PDF/A validation and conversion that doesn't require much programming.
- +PDF Security
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PDFNet SDK is a complete PDF library that allows developers to add, remove, or change security settings on existing PDF documents, among other features.
PDFSecure Command-Line utility and SDK offers a simple interface to manipulate security settings and encryption on existing PDF files that doesn't require much programming.
- +PDF Layers (OCGs)
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PDFNet SDK is a software component that offers full support for PDF layers (also known as Optional Content Groups, or OCGs). Among many other features, the API can be used to add, manipulate, and render individual layers in existing PDF documents. PDFNet SDK also includes a PDF viewer that includes built-in support for viewing and navigating PDF layers (OCGs).
- +PDF Creation
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PDFNet SDK offers a simple and flexible solution for developers looking to include dynamic PDF generation or PDF export capability in their .NET, JAVA, and C/C++ solutions.
- +PDF Optimization
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PDFNet SDK offers developers to linearize (web-optimize) existing PDF documents.
Developers can also use PDFNet Core API or PDF Optimization Add-on to resample images, to remove unnecessary objects, and to implement custom optimizations.
- +PDF Redaction
PDF Redaction Add-on for PDFNet SDK offers options to remove (not just covering or obscuring) content within a region of PDF.

