Poppler is described as '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' and is an app. There are eight alternatives to Poppler for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted and JavaScript apps. The best Poppler alternative is EmbedPDF, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Poppler are PDFium, BFO Java PDF Library, OpenPDF and ZetPDF.
EmbedPDF is a framework-agnostic, MIT-licensed PDF viewer that drops into any JavaScript project. Whether you build with React, Vue, Svelte, Preact, or vanilla JS, EmbedPDF delivers a smooth, modern reading experience and a clean developer API.
PDFium 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.
BFOs PDF library for creating, editing, displaying and printing Acrobat PDF documents. The PDF API is small, fast, easy to use and integrate into your projects, and is completely written in Java.
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.
ZetPDF is a C# ASP.NET VB.NET PDF API to create PDF documents from scratch using API or XML. PDF library for Windows Forms, WPF and Silverlight as well.
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.
PDF-LIB is a JavaScript library to let you create and modify PDF documents in any JavaScript environment. Create documents from scratch, or modify existing PDF documents. Draw text, images, and vector graphics. Even embed your own fonts.
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