PDFTron's PDF library for Node.js brings accurate, reliable, and fast document reading, writing, editing, printing, and display capabilities to Windows, Linux, and macOS applications. The npm package wraps the native PDFTron SDK, ensuring optimal performance.

Based on PDFTron's unified cross-platform low-level API, the Node.js API is consistent with the JavaScript API used by WebViewer , with additional capabilities for accessing the filesystem. The unified cross-platform API ensures faster development time, and simpler maintenance.

PDFTron’s fully supported Node.js PDF library is trusted by thousands of innovative startups, governments, and Fortune 500 businesses (see customers ). PDFTron technology is built from the ground up and is not dependent on any external third-party open-source software.

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File type support

• PDF, PDF/A
• DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX (MS Office software or licenses not required)
• PNG, JPEG, JPG, SVG
• EML, TXT, HTML
• DWG, DGN, DWF, DXF, RVT
• And others

OS support

• All versions of Windows (64-bit)
• Linux (64-bit), excluding Alpine
• Mac OS

Node version support

• 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

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