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16 Best Free and Open Source PDF Development Libraries

We pick the finest free and open source PDF libraries.

CamlPDF is an OCaml library for reading, writing and modifying PDF files.

xhtml2pdf is a HTML to PDF converter using Python, the ReportLab Toolkit, html5lib and pypdf.

PDFio is a simple C library for reading and writing PDF files.

PDFsharp is a .NET library for processing PDF files.

PDFKit is a PDF document generation library for Node and the browser that makes creating complex, multi-page, printable documents easy.

Leaflet is a hugely popular JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps.

CapyPDF is a fully color managed PDF generation library written in C++. It aims to be very low level.

pdf-lib lets you create and modify PDF documents in any JavaScript environment. Written in TypeScript, published under the MIT license.

TCPDF is a PHP library for generating PDF documents on-the-fly. TCPDF is free and open source software. Written by Nicola Asuni.

libHaru is a library for generating PDF files. libHaru is free and open source software published under the zlib license.

The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. PDFBox is free and open source software.

OpenPDF is a Java library for creating and editing PDF files with a LGPL and MPL open source license. Fork of iText 4.

Apache FOP (Formatting Object Processor) is a print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) and an output independent formatter.

Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base. Poppler comes with multiple frontends (APIs): cpp, glib and qt5.