What to Look for in a PDF SDK
When searching for the right PDF SDK for your application, what are the top features and capabilities to consider? Datalogics provides a list to help you research options.
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"Great use in consideration of time-to-market due to the distinct functionality of the software and the ability to manipulate PDFs."
Adobe PDF Library
CAPTERRA4.8
"Adobe PDF Library is a very high-quality SDK for all things PDF."
Adobe PDF Library
SOURCEFORGE
4.5
"Adobe PDF Library has very thorough documentation, first class support, covers the entire PDF spec and has the same codebase as Acrobat."
Adobe PDF Library
SOURCEFORGE
4.5
Features
Create & Modify
Annotate, split, merge, flatten, add bookmarks, links and labels, underline, highlight, add content, change color spaces and linearize.
Convert
Programmatically convert documents: PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF/A, PDF/X, ZUGFeRD, EPS, PS and XPS.
Forms
Import and export forms data, flatten static XFA and dynamic XFA forms, convert XFA, to AcroForm.
Security
Add digital signature capabilities, set, change and remove passwords, encryption and decryption, redaction, set permissions, watermark and lock documents.
Text
OCR (optical character recognition) in any language supported by Tesseract; search, extract text by pattern, region and annotations, insert header and footer, add glyphs, Unicode and vertical text.
Images
Extract, import and export, render, rasterize, create thumbnails, transparencies and separations, find image resolutions, calculate DPI and preview output.
SDK Supported Platforms
Windows
Linux
macOS
C
C++
.NET
.NET Framework
Java
