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The Ultimate PDF & Office SDK
Built entirely from the ground up and matured over the last 20 years, the PDFTron SDK is the industry-leading document platform with unmatched security, accuracy, and reliability. Edit, convert, optimize, view, and annotate on PDF, MS Office, and over 30 other formats. Our unified API connects to all platforms to ensure you can start sooner, develop faster, and manage easier.
The PDFTron Advantage
Speed
Optimized rendering means a better viewing experience. Stream individual pages or tiles without downloading the entire file to minimize bandwidth and memory footprint.
Accuracy
The PDF specification is very complex. Avoid costly surprises with the most compliant rendering engine built from the ground up and perfected at PDFTron over the last 20 years.
Stability
Developing the entire stack in-house has produced a track record of reliable and stable APIs that don’t break products with every update.
Functionality
Start with just what you need and seamlessly add platforms/formats/features as your product grows. The most comprehensive platform ensures that all your needs will be met.
Flexibility
Adjust how your product looks and feels, and build a unique product with an open-sourced UI. Flexible and transparent licensing works great for both startups and established companies.
Simplicity
A single API across all platforms means a shorter learning curve, faster development, and easier maintenance. Code samples and tutorials make it easy to get up and running.
Scalability
Cut your costs for bandwidth, storage, DevOps, and infrastructure with unique on-demand serverless viewing technology.
Support
In case of an issue, talk directly to the expert PDF developers who built the PDFTron SDK. No broken phones!
Security
Since PDFTron was built from the ground up you benefit from patent, copyright, and legal indemnity with full licensing transparency.
After evaluating the available options, it quickly became clear that we would give PDFNet a try. PDFNet more than met our needs for an affordable, flexible, and portable solution, which integrates well into our development system. Its comprehensive set of features and its unicode support in particular is impressive, and PDFTron's support staff have given us very helpful replies. We are looking forward to a productive collaboration.
Jan Reichelt
Co-Founder & Former Director, Mendeley Ltd.
