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    The Syncfusion® difference

    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.

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    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.

    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

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    WinForms

    Yes

    Yes

    WPF

    Yes

    Yes

    UWP

    Yes

    Intermediate

    ASP.NET Core

    Yes

    Yes

    ASP.NET MVC

    Yes

    Yes

    Blazor

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Flutter

    Yes

    Intermediate

    WinUI

    Yes

    Intermediate

    .NET MAUI

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Linux

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Xamarin

    Yes

    Yes

    Mac

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Azure

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Amazon Web Services

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Google Cloud Platform

    Yes

    Intermediate

    C#

    Yes

    Yes

    Dart

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Installation

    Platforms

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    Web Installer

    Yes

    Yes

    Offline Installer

    Yes

    Yes

    Linux Installer

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Supported Format

    Platforms

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    HTML

    Yes

    Yes

    Word

    Yes

    Yes

    Excel

    Yes

    Yes

    PPTX

    Yes

    Yes

    XPS

    Yes

    Intermediate

    PNG

    Yes

    Yes

    TIFF

    Yes

    Yes

    JPEG

    Yes

    Yes

    Create & Edit APIs

    Features

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    Open PDF Files

    Yes

    Yes

    Open and edit existing PDF documents

    Yes

    Yes

    Loading & saving document

    Yes

    Yes

    Save PDF Files

    Yes

    Yes

    Open PDF Files

    Platforms

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    From Google Drive

    Yes

    Intermediate

    From Dropbox cloud file storage

    Yes

    Intermediate

    From Azure blob storage

    Yes

    Intermediate

    From Google Cloud storage

    Yes

    Intermediate

    From AWS S3

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Save PDF Files

    Features

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    To Google Drive

    Yes

    Intermediate

    To Dropbox cloud file storage

    Yes

    Intermediate

    To Azure blob storage

    Yes

    Intermediate

    To Google Cloud storage

    Yes

    Intermediate

    To AWS S3

    Yes

    Intermediate

    PDF Conversions

    Features

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    PDF to Word

    Yes

    Yes

    PDF to Excel

    Yes

    Yes

    PDF to PPT (PowerPoint)

    Yes

    Yes

    HTML to PDF file

    Yes

    Yes

    PDF file to HTML format

    Yes

    Yes

    Images to PDF

    Yes

    Yes

    PDF to Images

    Yes

    Yes

    Other file formats to PDF

    Yes

    Yes

    PDF to other formats

    Yes

    Yes

    PDF to PDF/A formats

    Yes

    Yes

    PDF/A to PDF format

    Yes

    Yes

    Working with PDF

    Features

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    Formatting PDF Document

    Yes

    Yes

    Manipulate PDF Document

    Yes

    Yes

    Optimize PDF

    Yes

    Yes

    Merge PDF files

    Yes

    Yes

    Split PDF files

    Yes

    Yes

    Compress PDF

    Yes

    Yes

    Creating sections in a PDF

    Yes

    Yes

    Remove Specific Keys from the Existing Document Information

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Performing incremental update for PDF document

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Choosing the viewer preferences

    Yes

    Yes

    Adding document action

    Yes

    Yes

    Working in Multi-Threading Environment

    Yes

    Yes

    Uniform Resource Naming in PDF document

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Memory Optimization

    Yes

    No

    Find corrupted PDF document

    Yes

    Intermediate

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

    Yes

    No

    Add or retrieve BaseUri in a PDF document

    Yes

    No

    VIEWER Component

    Components

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    Fill PDF forms

    Yes

    Yes

    Annotate or review PDFs

    Yes

    Yes

    Easy page navigation

    Yes

    Yes

    Print PDFs

    Yes

    Yes

    Accurate PDF rendering

    Yes

    Yes

    Working with Pages

    Components

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    Add Pages

    Yes

    Yes

    Move PDF Pages

    Yes

    Yes

    Delete PDF Pages

    Yes

    Yes

    Change PDF Page Size

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Rotate PDF Pages

    Yes

    Yes

    Add Header and Footer to PDF

    Yes

    Yes

    Crop Pages

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Add watermark

    Yes

    Yes

    Add Page Number

    Yes

    Yes

    Add backgrounds

    Yes

    Yes

    Image stamps in PDF File

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Text stamps in PDF File

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Page stamps in PDF File

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Get and Set Page Properties

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Working with Text

    Features

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    Text Formatting inside PDF

    Yes

    Yes

    Replace Text in PDF

    Yes

    Yes

    Rotate Text Inside PDF

    Yes

    Yes

    Search and Get Text

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Drawing text in an existing document

    Yes

    No

    Drawing text using different fonts

    Yes

    No

    Draw text using standard fonts

    Yes

    No

    Draw text using TrueType fonts

    Yes

    No

    Draw text using CJK fonts

    Yes

    No

    Measuring a string

    Yes

    Yes

    Embedding fonts and working with Unicode text

    Yes

    No

    Drawing Right-To-Left text

    Yes

    No

    Adding a HTML Styled Text

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Creating a multicolumn PDF document

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Inserting Rich Text Format contents

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Adding an Ordered, Unordered List

    Yes

    Yes

    Replace Fonts in an existing document

    Yes

    Yes

    Search and get the bounds of a text in a document

    Yes

    Yes

    Drawing complex script language text

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Drawing text using OpenType font

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Drawing text with baseline alignment

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Adding a text encoding to the PdfStandardFont

    Yes

    Yes

    Working with Images

    Features

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    Add Image

    Yes

    Yes

    Delete Images

    Yes

    Yes

    Extract Images

    Yes

    Yes

    Get Resolution and Dimensions

    Yes

    Yes

    Working with Image Placement

    Yes

    Yes

    Search and Get Images

    Yes

    Yes

    Replace Image

    Yes

    Yes

    Set Image Size

    Yes

    Yes

    Supported Image Formats

    Features

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    JPEG

    Yes

    Yes

    JPEG with Exif standard

    Yes

    Yes

    GIF

    Yes

    Yes

    PNG

    Yes

    Yes

    TIFF

    Yes

    Yes

    ICO and ICON

    Yes

    Yes

    Working with Brush

    Features

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    Solid Brush

    Yes

    No

    Linear gradient brush

    Yes

    No

    Radial Gradient Brush

    Yes

    No

    Tiling Brush

    Yes

    No

    Working with Tables

    Features

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    Create or Add Table

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Extract Table

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Integrate Table

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Manipulate Tables

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Remove Tables

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Built-in table styles

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Working with Forms

    Features

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    Working with AcroForm

    Yes

    Yes

    Working with XFA Form

    Yes

    Yes

    Creating a new PDF form

    Yes

    Yes

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

    Yes

    Yes

    Set appearance to the PDF form fields

    Yes

    Yes

    Modifying the existing form field in PDF document

    Yes

    Yes

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

    Yes

    Yes

    Enumerate the form fields

    Yes

    Intermediate

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

    Yes

    Yes

    Importing FDF file to PDF

    Yes

    Yes

    Export PDF file to FDF

    Yes

    Yes

    Complex script support for form fields

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Auto naming of form fields

    Yes

    Yes

    Adding actions to form fields

    Yes

    Yes

    Auto resizing text box field text

    Yes

    Yes

    Merge Documents

    Features

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    Importing pages from multiple documents

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Optimizing PDF resources when merging PDF documents

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Reducing the size of the PDF file while importing pages

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Extend the margin of the PDF pages while merging PDF document

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Working with Text and Image Extraction

    Features

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    Working with basic text extraction

    Yes

    Yes

    Working with layout based text extraction

    Yes

    Yes

    Text Extraction with Bounds

    Yes

    Yes

    Working with Lines

    Yes

    Yes

    Working with words

    Yes

    Yes

    Working with characters

    Yes

    Yes

    Woking with Image Extraction

    Yes

    Yes

    Additional Features

    Features

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

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

    Yes

    Yes

    Working with OCR

    Yes

    Yes

    Color Spaces

    Yes

    No

    Working with JavaScript

    Yes

    Yes

    Meta data

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Hyperlinks

    Yes

    Yes

    Headers and Footers

    Yes

    Yes

    Shapes

    Yes

    Yes

    Bookmarks

    Yes

    Yes

    Named destination

    Yes

    Yes

    Annotation

    Yes

    Yes

    Attachments

    Yes

    Yes

    PDF Redaction

    Yes

    Yes

    Digital Signature

    Yes

    Yes

    Barcodes

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Actions

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Layers

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Tagged PDF

    Yes

    Yes

    Securing and signing in PDF

    Features

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    Digitally sign PDF

    Yes

    Yes

    Encrypt and Decrypt PDF Files

    Yes

    Yes

    Working with RC4 Encryption

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Working with AES Encryption

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Protect an existing document

    Yes

    Yes

    Set and changing the password of the PDF document

    Yes

    Yes

    Change the permission of the PDF document

    Yes

    Yes

    Remove password from the user password PDF document

    Yes

    Yes

    Working with Portfolio

    Features

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    Creating a PDF portfolio

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Extracting file from PDF Portfolio

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Removing files from PDF Portfolio

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Working with ZUGFeRD invoice

    Features

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    Generating ZUGFeRD invoice

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Adding ZUGFeRD structured data as attachment

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Extract ZUGFeRD invoice from PDF

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Validating ZUGFeRD invoices using Adobe Acrobat

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Working with XML

    Features

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    Create PDF from XML using XSLT

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Generate PDF from XML

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Supported XML Schema

    Yes

    Intermediate

    HIGHLIGHTS

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

    Features

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    Ability to create PDF files from scratch.

    Yes

    Yes

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

    Yes

    Yes

    Ability to open, modify and save existing PDF files.

    Yes

    Yes

    Support to compress existing PDF files.

    Yes

    Yes

    Ability to merge and split PDF files.

    Yes

    Yes

    Support for optical character recognition by using Tesseract engine.

    Yes

    No

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

    Yes

    Yes

    Ability to encrypt and decrypt PDF files with advanced standards.

    Yes

    Intermediate

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

    Yes

    Yes

    Support to add barcodes to the PDF files.

    Yes

    Intermediate

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

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Support to redact text and images in PDF files.

    Yes

    Yes

    Support to digitally sign and validate signatures in PDF documents.

    Yes

    Yes

    Support for .NET Standard 2.0 onwards.

    Yes

    Intermediate

    PDF library is compatible with .NET 8.0 applications.

    Yes

    Intermediate

    EXCLUSIVE FEATURE SETS

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

    Features

    Syncfusion®

    Other Vendors

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

    Yes

    No

    PDF supports both the dynamic and static XFA forms.

    Yes

    No

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

    Yes

    No

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

    Yes

    No

    Supports 15+ 1D, and 2D barcodes

    Yes

    No

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

    Yes

    No

    Create PDF from XML using XSLT

    Yes

    No

    JavaScript code embedded in the PDF document

    Yes

    No

    Memory Optimization

    Yes

    No

    Find corrupted PDF document

    Yes

    No

    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®

    Other Vendors

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

    Yes

    Yes

    Real world examples

    Yes

    Yes

    Single API across all platforms.

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Github samples

    Yes

    Yes

    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®

    		Other Vendors
    Installation and Upgrade information

    Yes

    Yes

    System Requirements

    Yes

    Yes

    Individual Nuget Packages

    Yes

    No

    Licensing FAQ’s

    Yes

    Yes

    Getting started documentation for all supported platforms

    Yes

    Yes

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

    Yes

    Yes

    Every features explained with well crafted code examples

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Release history

    Yes

    Yes

    EASY DEVELOPMENT

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

    Features

    Syncfusion®

    		Other Vendors

    Powerful and comprehensive API.

    Yes

    Yes

    Proven and fully documented.

    Yes

    Intermediate

    PDF Viewer component UI with a rich appearance.

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Blazing-fast performance.

    Yes

    Yes

    No server deployment fees.

    Yes

    Intermediate

    Live chat support on all business days.

    Yes

    No

    Request feature/demo

    Yes

    Intermediate

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