Take Control of PDF Workflows
The Adobe PDF Library gives developers control over PDF creation, manipulation and management with one SDK.
Built on source code used for Acrobat®, our SDK is compatible with Adobe products and specifications. Developers can have confidence that files will be conformant, reduced development time, and fewer manual errors.
There’s a reason we have a 94% customer retention rate.
C/C++, .NET Framework, .NET Core & Java
Windows, Linux, MacOS
Take Control of PDF Workflows
The Adobe PDF Library gives developers control over PDF creation, manipulation and management with one SDK.
Built on source code used for Acrobat®, our SDK is compatible with Adobe products and specifications. Developers can have confidence that files will be conformant, reduced development time, and fewer manual errors.
There’s a reason we have a 94% customer retention rate.
Creation & Modification
- Optimize for size
- Merge/Split
- Annotations
- Flattening
- Bookmarks, links, labels
- Underlines/Highlights
- Create Transparency
- Add Content/Elements
- Color spaces
Extraction
- Content
- Attachments
- Fonts
- Flattening
- List info, layers & paths
- Metadata
Security
- Passwords
- Redactions
- Encrypt/Decrypt
- Watermark
Forms
- XFA to AcroForms
- Import/Export data
- Flatten
Images
- Extract
- Import/Export
- Thumbnails
- Render/Rasterize Pages
- Separations
Text
- Text extraction by pattern, region, annotations
- Text search
- Insert header/footer
- Add glyphs, unicode & vertical text
Conversion
- PDFA Converter
- PDFX Converter
- ZUGFeRD Converter
- PDF to EPS
- PDF to PostScript
- XPS to PDF
OCR
- Add Text to Document
- Add Text to Image
Creation & Modification
- Optimize for size
- Merge/Split
- Annotations
- Flattening
- Bookmarks, links, labels
- Underlines/Highlights
- Create Transparency
- Add Content/Elements
- Color spaces
Extraction
- Content
- Attachments
- Fonts
- Flattening
- List info, layers & paths
- Metadata
Security
- Passwords
- Redactions
- Encrypt/Decrypt
- Watermark
Forms
- XFA to AcroForms
- Import/Export data
- Flatten
Images
- Extract
- Import/Export
- Thumbnails
- Render/Rasterize Pages
- Separations
Text
- Text extraction by pattern, region, annotations
- Text search
- Insert header/footer
- Add glyphs, unicode & vertical text
Conversion
- PDFA Converter
- PDFX Converter
- ZUGFeRD Converter
- PDF to EPS
- PDF to PostScript
- XPS to PDF
OCR
- Add Text to Document
- Add Text to Image
Low-Code Command Line Tools
FLIP2PDF
Automatically convert Microsoft Office, HTML, image, PostScript and EPS files to PDF and expedite large batch conversions for seamless integration into their document workflow.
PDF Optimizer
Reduce PDF file size while maintaining the quality of the document. Compressed PDFs are easier to share, send and store.
Forms Flattener
Flatten AcroForm and XFA documents to PDFs by removing interactive form fields and live links for easier viewing and printing.
PDF Checker
Free tool that detects problems with PDFs that may impact the ability to properly view or process PDF files.
PDF2PRINT
A scriptable server tool used for printing PDF files quickly and easily, providing complete control over the print process.
PDF2IMG
Transform pages in a PDF or XPS document into graphics image files like BMP, GIF or JPEG among image formats.
Adobe Experience Reader Extensions
Automate and extend forms and document processing through Adobe Reader by choosing which functionality you want to include
Companion SDKs & Publishing Tools
Forms Extension™
Forms Extension is a companion SDK to The Adobe PDF Library that extends digital document support to PDFs with static and dynamic XFA and AcroForm content. Quickly and easily import and export form data, lock completed forms to prevent editing, fill databases with forms data, and provide consistent viewing experiences across all devices.
Adobe PDF Converter
Adobe PDF Converter for The Adobe PDF Library is an API that consumes PostScript and Encapsulated PostScript files and standardizes them to a searchable PDF/A output while collecting unique and reportable PDF data from the body of input content. A time-saver when you need to batch process and convert multiple files at one time.
Adobe InDesign Server
Adobe InDesign Server is a robust and scalable engine that can automate the design, layout, and typographical capabilities of Adobe InDesign. The InDesign Server engine drives a wide range of advertising, catalog, editorial, and brochure publishing solutions. Most customers work with Adobe’s deep and experienced pool of development partners to deploy an existing solution or have one custom-built to meet their exact needs.
