The collection covers all categories of software. Read our complete collection of recommended free and open source software. Library for creating and editing PDF files fork of iText Print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects Parse PDF files and modify their contents into memory Library for rendering PDF files, and examining or modifying their structure PDF Development LibrariesĬreate, render, print, split, merge, alter, verify and extract text and metadata For each program we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, together with links to relevant resources.
This is because these categories are covered by other articles in our Best Free and Open Source series. We are not considering PDF editors, PDF viewers, tools that add an OCR layer to PDF files here.
The purpose of this article is to recommend free and open source PDF development libraries.