PDFium Alternatives

PDFium is described as 'Is Google's PDF generation and rendering library. It's used in Chrome for displaying PDFs and print preview and on Android for PDF rendering' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to PDFium for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Linux, Mac and Self-Hosted apps. The best PDFium alternative is htmldocs, which is free. Other great apps like PDFium are Poppler, Document Cyborg, HTML2PDF and Pdfcrowd.

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  1. htmldocs icon
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    An online document editor for creating and automating generation of PDF documents from HTML/CSS. No installation required, REST API, and free to use. Hundreds of templates from invoices, reports, resumes, legal documents, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  2. Poppler icon
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    This is Poppler, a library for rendering PDF files, and examining or modifying their structure. Poppler originally came from the XPDF sources; please see the file README-XPDF for the original xpdf-3.03 README.

    8 Poppler alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. HTML2PDF icon
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    HTML2PDF is a HTML to PDF converter that allows the conversion of valid HTML 4.01 in PDF format, and is distributed under LGPL.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  4. Pdfcrowd icon
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    Pdfcrowd lets you convert HTML to PDF online. Create PDF from HTML or web pages directly in your browser or in your Python, Ruby, .NET, Java, and PHP apps via our API.

    45 Pdfcrowd alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. HiQPdf HTML to PDF Converter .NET is a powerful, fast and precise HTML to PDF converter library to convert HTML5, CSS3, SVG, Canvas, JavaScript and Web Fonts to PDF, to quickly create, edit, merge and split PDF...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. eDocAPI icon
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    eDocAPI is a PDF Generator API as saas platform lets you easily generate PDF documents from templates, html code and URLs through a simple REST API and web interface.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. Aspose.Pdf is a Java PDF component to create PDF documents without using Adobe Acrobat DC . It supports Floating box, PDF form field, PDF attachments, security, Foot note & end note, Multiple columns document, Table of Contents, List of...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. PDFSwitch icon
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    Convert any HTML document or URL to PDF with a single API request.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. The Apache PDFBox™ library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. OpenPDF icon
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    OpenPDF is a free Java library for creating and editing PDF files with a LGPL and MPL open source license. OpenPDF is based on a fork of iText.

    16 OpenPDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Java
     
  11. HTML PDF API icon
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    HTML PDF API is a cloud service that allows you to convert HTML to PDF using standard technologies (HTML, CSS and JavaScript). Free to try!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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