Adobe PDF Library
About Adobe PDF Library
Global OEMs, SaaS and enterprise end-users rely on Adobe PDF Library to automate the creation, editing and management of PDFs. An Adobe partner, our SDK uses the same source code as Acrobat for stability, reliability and quality results.
Adobe PDF Library gives developers flexible programming language and platform options, and is currently available in .NET, .NET Framework, Java and C/C++ on Windows, Linux, MacOS, as well as via NuGet and Maven.
Capabilities include but are not limited to:
-Annotations
-Archiving with PDF/A
-Content creation
-Content modification – change layers, change configurations, flatten transparencies, merge, split, underlines, highlights, watermarks
-Color management
-Extraction - text, images, forms
-Compression/optimize
-Conversion - PDF/A, PDF/X, EPS, PostScript, XPS, ZUGFeRD, color
-Display
-Extract text, images & other content
-Forms - Import, export, flatten static & dynamic XFA forms, AcroForms
-Images - extract, import/export, thumbnails, render/rasterize pages, separations
-Optimization - size, content, images, etc.
-OCR - add text to document, add text to image
-PDF to Office Documents (Word, Excel, PPT)
-Printing
-Security - Viewer settings, redactions, password, encrypt/decryption, watermark
-Text modifications
Our extensive documentation includes getting started guides, API references, and hundreds of sample code examples on GitHub to help developers precisely create and define PDF workflow solutions.
Pricing for Adobe PDF Library is based on your business model & software usage.
OEMs
Customers incorporating Adobe PDF Library into an application for external distribution pay a flat annual fee per platform and a royalty based on product distribution. The royalty fee is based on a percentage of sales, a flat fee per unit, or fixed distribution – based on how you license your product.
SaaS
Customers using Adobe PDF Library in an externally accessible service (SaaS) can license the software based on the number of servers deployed or a customized model based on users, activations, quantity of documents processed, or revenue.
End Users
Adobe PDF Library licensing for internal usage is based on the number of servers or desktops where our software is deployed. In today’s environment, architecture varies and we are happy to tailor special pricing for you.
Free trial includes access to our PDF technology experts who can help with proof of concept as well as extend your free trial license should you require more time to test the software.
There’s a reason we have a 94% customer retention rate.
Shorten development times & get to market faster with Adobe PDF Library.
Download a free trial today and get started!
Key benefits of Adobe PDF Library
Automate the creation, manipulation and management of PDFs in enterprise-scale applications to get to market faster. Using the same Adobe source code as Acrobat for the highest-quality results, Adobe PDF Library gives developers flexible programming language and platform options for shorter development times.
Free trial available in the following options:
Languages:
.NET, .NET Framework, Java and C/C++
Platforms:
Windows, Linux & MacOS
Package Managers:
NuGet & Maven (see our tutorials in the video section)
PDF software engineers are available to help you with your proof of concept, or you can check out our GitHub sample codes and extensive online documentation.
Pricing for Adobe PDF Library is based on your business model & software usage.
OEMs
Customers incorporating Adobe PDF Library into an application for external distribution pay a flat annual fee per platform and a royalty based on product distribution. The royalty fee is based on a percentage of sales, a flat fee per unit, or fixed distribution – based on how you license your product.
SaaS
Customers using Adobe PDF Library in an externally accessible service (SaaS) can license the software based on the number of servers deployed or a customized model based on users, activations, quantity of documents processed, or revenue.
End Users
Adobe PDF Library licensing for internal usage is based on the number of servers or desktops where our software is deployed. In today’s environment, architecture varies and we are happy to tailor special pricing for you.
Free trial includes access to our PDF technology experts who can help with proof of concept as well as extend your free trial license should you require more time to test the software.
There’s a reason we have a 94% customer retention rate.
Shorten development times & get to market faster with Adobe PDF Library.
Download a free trial today and get started!
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- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
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Reviewed on 2023/10/19
Pros
This software is very rich providing a large range of tools. Very practical while converting pdf, managing contents and signing documents.
Cons
Not available for Android or iPhone, very difficult for beginners, lack of language switch (takes only English into account)
- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
This is the best PDF software
Reviewed on 2022/09/08
This experience has been positive, I’m satisfied. Signing documents without pen and paper or face...
This experience has been positive, I’m satisfied. Signing documents without pen and paper or face to face meetings has saved time and propelled us into a better way of getting work done.
This has saved the day many times when I received PDFs from clients and sometimes even from our attorneys that have tons of errors. I don’t know how else I would have fixed them.
Like I said, Adobe is the creator of the PDF and will likely always be the best way to generate and edit them. The person or company who created something will almost always know more about it than another company who came along later.
Pros
Adobe created the Portable Document Format or PDF.
This is the best PDF generator, reader, and editor. It’s the best way to print PDFs.
This can be used with Adobe software like Adobe acrobat, giving it more uses.
Sign documents without using pen and paper, cleanly without errors.
If a PDF does have errors Adobe PDF library is able to fix them. Convert or compress a file.
All of the current updates in the PDF world are present.
Cons
This is expensive. Some people think it’s hard to use, the Java version has given me temporary problems.
Signing documents is faster with newer APIs.
Reasons for Choosing Adobe PDF Library
This we only tried for a short time and quickly returned to Adobe PDF library and Adobe acrobat. It’s basically the same but Soda PDF wasn’t as good.Switched From
Soda PDFReasons for Switching to Adobe PDF Library
Adobe is a company everyone knows and we trust them more than companies we’ve never heard of.- Industry: Printing
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
A must have for everyone dealing with PDF
Reviewed on 2022/06/30
We usually are able to do what we want. Except for big pdf (or poorly formatted) where sometimes we...
We usually are able to do what we want. Except for big pdf (or poorly formatted) where sometimes we find some operations very slow.
Pros
Low level API
Good documentation
Easy to implement
Cons
Very slow for some operations
Very slow with huge PDF (sometimes it takes more than a day to merge several PDF and save the result)
- Industry: Human Resources
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Great software for PDF creation and edition.
Reviewed on 2024/12/09
I've used PDF Library for only the trial period and did not subscribe further as many of the...
I've used PDF Library for only the trial period and did not subscribe further as many of the advanced functions were not of my interest and overall speaking the software is just too expensive.
Pros
Adobe PDF Library is the most comprehensive software for PDF files. Is all-in-one for PC, tablet or mobile phones, allowing users to create or edit PDF files on the go.
Cons
Pretty much any software from Adobe is considered too expensive for general users.
Response from Datalogics
Thanks for the nice review, we appreciate it! And we completely agree with you that this is too much for general users. A better option would be Adobe Acrobat - Standard Plan.
Adobe PDF Library SDK (software development kit) is for developers to embed in OEM or SaaS software products for enterprise-sized PDF workflows.
Again - thank you for your review, we appreciate it.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Datalogics API Review.
Reviewed on 2024/04/19
It is very good, I can easily use the API's by the manuals/
It is very good, I can easily use the API's by the manuals/
Pros
Easy to use, Understandable API's for writing and reading the document.
Cons
Some documents can not be opened. When opened by Adobe they are automatically repaired and ignored some others. Some of these auto error correction have to be implemented in case of PDF Rendering libraries.
Adobe PDF Library FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Adobe PDF Library.Q. What type of pricing plans does Adobe PDF Library offer?
Adobe PDF Library offers the following pricing plans:
- Free Trial: Available
We offer Free PDF Tools on our website www.datalogics.com and free trials of our Adobe PDF Library SDK Tools, which can be priced for larger projects by contacting us directly. Pricing for our Private REST APIs can be found here: aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-iprslcx6flkhs#pdp-pricing
Q. Who are the typical users of Adobe PDF Library?
Adobe PDF Library has the following typical customers:
11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Adobe PDF Library support?
Adobe PDF Library supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Adobe PDF Library support mobile devices?
Adobe PDF Library supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Adobe PDF Library integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Adobe PDF Library has
Q. What level of support does Adobe PDF Library offer?
Adobe PDF Library offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
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