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100% Standalone .NET PDF library

The .NET PDF Library is completely independent and doesn't need Adobe dependencies.

Create, modify, and save PDF files

The PDF Library gives you the ability to create PDF documents from scratch and save them to a disk or stream with just a few lines of code. Existing documents can also be opened and manipulated.

Fast performance

Load documents with thousands of pages instantly. Enjoy a seamless scrolling experience. The virtualized page rendering utilizes less runtime memory.

Encrypt and decrypt PDFs

PDF Library provides support for basic to advanced encryption standards.

Digitally sign PDF files

Documents can be digitally signed using x509 certificates with local, web, or hardware-based signatures.

15+ years Proven PDF library

Over the more than 15 years since its first publication, Syncfusion® .NET PDF Library has become a mature and proven product.

200+ Demos

These real-world examples demonstrate the supported features and APIs for utilizing the PDF Framework to do various PDF-related activities like create, edit, view, convert, compress, etc.

Powerful and comprehensive APIs

All the elements in a typical PDF document like text, formatting, images, shapes, and tables are accessible through a comprehensive set of APIs.

No server deployment fee

There are no distribution fees, per-server licensing fees, or royalties, making the PDF Library very cost-effective.

Free, unlimited support

Utilize direct support from our document processing libraries development team along with live chat support with no additional charges.

G2 reviews

On G2, more than 400 users have positively reviewed Syncfusion®. Other vendors have far fewer reviews.

Free Community License

Get free, unlimited access to the over 1,900 controls in Syncfusion® Essential Studio® through the Community License if eligible. No credit card required.

100% Standalone .NET PDF library

The .NET PDF Library is completely independent and doesn't need Adobe dependencies.

Create, modify, and save PDF files

The PDF Library gives you the ability to create PDF documents from scratch and save them to a disk or stream with just a few lines of code. Existing documents can also be opened and manipulated.

Fast performance

Load documents with thousands of pages instantly. Enjoy a seamless scrolling experience. The virtualized page rendering utilizes less runtime memory.

Encrypt and decrypt PDFs

PDF Library provides support for basic to advanced encryption standards:

Digitally sign PDF files

Documents can be digitally signed using x509 certificates with local, web, or hardware-based signatures.

15+ years Proven PDF library

Over the more than 15 years since its first publication, Syncfusion® .NET PDF Library has become a mature and proven product.

200+ Demos

These real-world examples demonstrate the supported features and APIs for utilizing the PDF Framework to do various PDF-related activities like create, edit, view, convert, compress, etc.

Powerful and comprehensive APIs

All the elements in a typical PDF document like text, formatting, images, shapes, and tables are accessible through a comprehensive set of APIs.

No server deployment fee

There are no distribution fees, per-server licensing fees, or royalties, making the PDF Library very cost-effective.

Free, unlimited support

Utilize direct support from our document processing libraries development team along with live chat support with no additional charges.

G2 reviews

On G2, more than 400 users have positively reviewed Syncfusion®. Other vendors have far fewer reviews.

Free Community License

Get free, unlimited access to the over 1,900 controls in Syncfusion® Essential Studio® through the Community License if eligible. No credit card required.

PDF LIBRARY LICENSING SIMPLIFIED

Focus on Development, Not Costs

Traditional PDF libraries burden you with hidden costs, per-server fees, runtime royalties, and rigid user limits. The Syncfusion® PDF Framework flips the script with a transparent, flexible licensing model designed for modern development.

Zero hidden cost

Zero Hidden Costs

Enjoy royalty-free redistribution and no per-server or deployment fees.

Flexible and scalable

Flexible & Scalable

Transfer licenses as your team evolves and work across multiple projects under one license.

Maximum savings

Massive Savings

Realize up to 80% cost savings compared to competitors. Eligible startups and small businesses can utilize a free community license.

Key Features

Syncfusion® PDF Framework

Other Vendors

Royalty-Free Distribution

Yes<div class="tooltip"><span class="tooltiptext">Distribute apps freely with an active subscription—no extra fees.</span></div>

No

Deployment Fees

No<div class="tooltip"><span class="tooltiptext">No additional costs regardless of server or core count.</span></div>

Yes

Licensing Flexibility

Yes<div class="tooltip"><span class="tooltiptext">Easily transfer team licenses up to 4x per year </span></div>

Less flexible, usually fixed user licenses

Multiproject Support

Yes<div class="tooltip"><span class="tooltiptext">Use one license for multiple projects.</span></div>

Limited / No

Cost Savings

Up to 80%<div class="tooltip"><span class="tooltiptext">Save big with global licensing.</span></div>

Limited

Price Lock

Yes<div class="tooltip"><span class="tooltiptext">Lock in pricing for multiple years (global license) to enjoy predictable budgeting and better long-term financial planning.</span></div>

No

Support Included

24/5 support<div class="tooltip"><span class="tooltiptext">Dedicated, expert support with fast responses, unlimited ticket creation, and live chat.</span></div>

Limited

Licensing Options

Flexible<div class="tooltip"><span class="tooltiptext">Choose from Team or Global (Unlimited) plans for flexible licensing.</span></div>

Less scalable

No credit card required. 

The Syncfusion® .NET PDF suite versus other vendors

Note: Other Vendors denotes Apryse[v10.6.0], PSPDFKit[v2023.5.4], ASPOSE[v23.12]

Yes

No

Some of them not having

COMPONENTS

The Syncfusion® .NET PDF Library is one of the best .NET PDF libraries on the market, offering a rich set of APIs to interact with the software.
Supported Platforms

Platforms

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WinForms

WPF

UWP

ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET MVC

Blazor

Flutter

WinUI

.NET MAUI

Linux

Xamarin

Mac

Azure

Amazon Web Services

Google Cloud Platform

C#

Dart

Installation

Platforms

Syncfusion<sup class="trademark-small">®</sup>

Other Vendors

Web Installer

Offline Installer

Linux Installer

Supported Format

Platforms

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HTML

Word

Excel

PPTX

XPS

PNG

TIFF

JPEG

Create & Edit APIs

Features

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Open PDF Files

Open and edit existing PDF documents

Loading & saving document

Save PDF Files

Open PDF Files

Platforms

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From Google Drive

From Dropbox cloud file storage

From Azure blob storage

From Google Cloud storage

From AWS S3

Save PDF Files

Features

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To Google Drive

To Dropbox cloud file storage

To Azure blob storage

To Google Cloud storage

To AWS S3

PDF Conversions

Features

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PDF to Word

PDF to Excel

PDF to PPT (PowerPoint)

HTML to PDF file

PDF file to HTML format

Images to PDF

PDF to Images

Other file formats to PDF

PDF to other formats

PDF to PDF/A formats

PDF/A to PDF format

Working with PDF

Features

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Formatting PDF Document

Manipulate PDF Document

Optimize PDF

Merge PDF files

Split PDF files

Compress PDF

Creating sections in a PDF

Remove Specific Keys from the Existing Document Information

Performing incremental update for PDF document

Choosing the viewer preferences

Adding document action

Working in Multi-Threading Environment

Uniform Resource Naming in PDF document

Memory Optimization

Find corrupted PDF document

Embed all the non-embedded fonts in the existing PDF document

Add or retrieve BaseUri in a PDF document

VIEWER Component

Components

Syncfusion<sup class="trademark-small">®</sup>

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Fill PDF forms

Annotate or review PDFs

Easy page navigation

Print PDFs

Accurate PDF rendering

Working with Pages

Components

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Add Pages

Move PDF Pages

Delete PDF Pages

Change PDF Page Size

Rotate PDF Pages

Add Header and Footer to PDF

Crop Pages

Add watermark

Add Page Number

Add backgrounds

Image stamps in PDF File

Text stamps in PDF File

Page stamps in PDF File

Get and Set Page Properties

Working with Text

Features

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Text Formatting inside PDF

Replace Text in PDF

Rotate Text Inside PDF

Search and Get Text

Drawing text in an existing document

Drawing text using different fonts

Draw text using standard fonts

Draw text using TrueType fonts

Draw text using CJK fonts

Measuring a string

Embedding fonts and working with Unicode text

Drawing Right-To-Left text

Adding a HTML Styled Text

Creating a multicolumn PDF document

Inserting Rich Text Format contents

Adding an Ordered, Unordered List

Replace Fonts in an existing document

Search and get the bounds of a text in a document

Drawing complex script language text

Drawing text using OpenType font

Drawing text with baseline alignment

Adding a text encoding to the PdfStandardFont

Working with Images

Features

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Add Image

Delete Images

Extract Images

Get Resolution and Dimensions

Working with Image Placement

Search and Get Images

Replace Image

Set Image Size

Supported Image Formats

Features

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Other Vendors

JPEG

JPEG with Exif standard

GIF

PNG

TIFF

ICO and ICON

Working with Brush

Features

Syncfusion<sup class="trademark-small">®</sup>

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Solid Brush

Linear gradient brush

Radial Gradient Brush

Tiling Brush

Working with Tables

Features

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Create or Add Table

Extract Table

Integrate Table

Manipulate Tables

Remove Tables

Built-in table styles

Working with Forms

Features

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Other Vendors

Working with AcroForm

Working with XFA Form

Creating a new PDF form

Add, fill and remove form fields in an existing PDF Document

Set appearance to the PDF form fields

Modifying the existing form field in PDF document

Retrieving/Modifying the fore and back color of an existing form fields

Enumerate the form fields

Fill the XFA form fields along with Acroform in a same API

Importing FDF file to PDF

Export PDF file to FDF

Complex script support for form fields

Auto naming of form fields

Adding actions to form fields

Auto resizing text box field text

Merge Documents

Features

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Other Vendors

Importing pages from multiple documents

Optimizing PDF resources when merging PDF documents

Reducing the size of the PDF file while importing pages

Extend the margin of the PDF pages while merging PDF document

Working with Text and Image Extraction

Features

Syncfusion<sup class="trademark-small">®</sup>

Other Vendors

Working with basic text extraction

Working with layout based text extraction

Text Extraction with Bounds

Working with Lines

Working with words

Working with characters

Woking with Image Extraction

Additional Features

Features

Syncfusion<sup class="trademark-small">®</sup>

Other Vendors

PDF/A sub standards (PDF/A-1 to PDF/A-4)

Working with OCR

Color Spaces

Working with JavaScript

Meta data

Hyperlinks

Headers and Footers

Shapes

Bookmarks

Named destination

Annotation

Attachments

PDF Redaction

Digital Signature

Barcodes

Actions

Layers

Tagged PDF

Securing and signing in PDF

Features

Syncfusion<sup class="trademark-small">®</sup>

Other Vendors

Digitally sign PDF

Encrypt and Decrypt PDF Files

Working with RC4 Encryption

Working with AES Encryption

Protect an existing document

Set and changing the password of the PDF document

Change the permission of the PDF document

Remove password from the user password PDF document

Working with Portfolio

Features

Syncfusion<sup class="trademark-small">®</sup>

Other Vendors

Creating a PDF portfolio

Extracting file from PDF Portfolio

Removing files from PDF Portfolio

Working with ZUGFeRD invoice

Features

Syncfusion<sup class="trademark-small">®</sup>

Other Vendors

Generating ZUGFeRD invoice

Adding ZUGFeRD structured data as attachment

Extract ZUGFeRD invoice from PDF

Validating ZUGFeRD invoices using Adobe Acrobat

Working with XML

Features

Syncfusion<sup class="trademark-small">®</sup>

Other Vendors

Create PDF from XML using XSLT

Generate PDF from XML

Supported XML Schema

HIGHLIGHTS

The.NET PDF framework is a powerful library used to create, read, merge, split, secure, edit, display, and review PDF files.

Features

Syncfusion<sup class="trademark-small">®</sup>

Other Vendors

Ability to create PDF files from scratch.

Support for creation, filling, and flattening of forms (AcroForms and XFA).

Ability to open, modify and save existing PDF files.

Support to compress existing PDF files.

Ability to merge and split PDF files.

Support for optical character recognition by using Tesseract engine.

Ability to convert HTML, RTF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and XPS to PDF.

Ability to encrypt and decrypt PDF files with advanced standards.

Support to add, modify, and remove interactive elements such as bookmarks, annotations, and attachments.

Support to add barcodes to the PDF files.

Support to create accessible PDF or tagged PDF (PDF/UA) with section 508 compliance.

Support to redact text and images in PDF files.

Support to digitally sign and validate signatures in PDF documents.

Support for .NET Standard 2.0 onwards.

PDF library is compatible with .NET 8.0 applications.

EXCLUSIVE FEATURE SETS

Compared to other vendors, Syncfusion® PDF document processing have many unique features that benefit users.

Features

Syncfusion<sup class="trademark-small">®</sup>

Other Vendors

Drawing text in a new, and existing document also using standard, truetype and CJK fonts.

PDF supports both the dynamic and static XFA forms.

PDF provides support for Optical Character Recognition with the help of Google’s Tesseract Optical Character Recognition engine.

PDF provides support to add, remove and modify the named destination in the PDF document.

Supports 15+ 1D, and 2D barcodes

PDF supports 10+ actions that can be triggered by different events and user interactions.

Create PDF from XML using XSLT

JavaScript code embedded in the PDF document

Memory Optimization

Find corrupted PDF document

DEMOS

For the PDF Library, there are 200+ demos. The examples show a variety of distinct user case scenarios that could be quite useful.

Features

Syncfusion<sup class="trademark-small">®</sup>

Other Vendors

Create and modify PDF files from C# with 5 lines of code.

Real world examples

Single API across all platforms.

Github samples

DOCUMENTATION

All the features of our PDF Library’s components are explained thoroughly with C# code examples, demos, and screenshots in the documentation. 

Features

Syncfusion<sup class="trademark-small">®</sup>

Other Vendors
Installation and Upgrade information

System Requirements

Individual Nuget Packages

Licensing FAQ’s

Getting started documentation for all supported platforms

Explained all features of PDF Library with an extensive documentation, and knowledge base

Every features explained with well crafted code examples

Release history

EASY DEVELOPMENT

Essential® PDF is a native .NET class library that can be easily integrate in your application.

Features

Syncfusion<sup class="trademark-small">®</sup>

Other Vendors

Powerful and comprehensive API.

Proven and fully documented.

PDF Viewer component UI with a rich appearance.

Blazing-fast performance.

No server deployment fees.

Live chat support on all business days.

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* The comparison data is taken from Syncfusion® 2023 Volume 4 release.

** If you have questions about the comparison tables, please contact us.

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