11 Best Free and Open Source PDF Development Libraries
There is a large range of PDF-related software available with many different applications available that can both output to and open files. Many open source software save documents to this format such as LibreOffice and GIMP.
The purpose of this article is to recommend free and open source PDF development libraries. We are not considering PDF editors, PDF viewers, tools that add an OCR layer to PDF files here. This is because these categories are covered by other articles in our Best Free and Open Source series.
Here’s our recommended PDF libraries captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart.
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CapyPDF – library for generating PDF files
CapyPDF is a fully color managed PDF generation library written in C++. It aims to be very low level.