Feature-rich PDF API for .NET Core 2.0
Total control of PDFs is yours—generate documents with speed, memory efficiency, and no dependencies
- Generate, load, edit, save PDF documents in code
- Analyze and parse PDF forms
- Sign, secure, and compress PDF documents
- Generate linearized PDFs
- Support multiple languages with full text,
paragraph formatting, and fonts - Deploy to Azure and AWS
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Fast and efficient
Save memory and time with the lightweight API architecture. Generate and work with documents with high performances
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Supports 100s of PDF features
Generate PDF forms with everything from signatures to security features—and you can even add, delete, copy and move pages, change page sizes, orientation, generate linearized PDFs and compress PDF files
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Comprehensive API for Adobe PDF
Generate, edit, and store feature-rich PDF documents without compromising design or features. This API conforms to much of Adobe PDF specification 1.7
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Full .NET Core 2.0 support for Windows, Linux, and Mac
Develop for any .NET platform, for major operating systems, with a single code base. Use in your apps for .NET Core 2.0+, .NET Framework, Mono, Xamarin.iOS, and Xamarin.Android
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Complete text support
Lose nothing in your documents! Documents for PDF includes text and paragraph formatting, special characters, multiple languages, RTL support, vertical and rotated text for all supported platforms
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Deploy apps with PDFs to the cloud
Be everywhere with cloud-based deployment—with NuGet and Documents for PDF, you can deploy to Azure, AWS, and AWS Lambda
Generate and process secured forms
Create full-featured PDF forms with complex layouts
- Acroform fields
- Digital signatures
- Submit actions
- Reset buttons
Create 1000-page PDFs, fast
Generate large PDFs in mere seconds, and avoid bloat in your apps with the small footprint
Try DemoDesign beautiful magazine-style layouts
With balanced columns, text-wrapped images, drop caps, and full paragraph and text control, you'll create polished PDFs git
Try DemoGenerate shipping labels with barcodes
Add logos, text, and barcodes to printable shipping labels in an easy-to-use, clear grid design
Try DemoUse on Windows, Mac, and Linux
Generate and work with PDFs on Windows, Linux and MAC with full support of features
Text wrapping and images
Advanced layout supports padding, columns, and text wrapping by word, character, and around images
Merge, split, copy, or move documents and pages
Manipulate PDFs in some of the most common use cases: merge and split different PDFs, or copy and move pages between documents
Advanced font and language support
Dozens of fonts and options support a variety of styles and multiple languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, and Japanese
Digital signatures
Implement digital (using X509 certificates) with image based visual signatures for document security and workflow management
Form fields
AcroForm fields include textbox, checkbox, radio button, combtext, combobox, listbox, and buttons
Extract text and images from PDFs
Extract text from PDFs to use the text in Word documents, HTML files, and more, or save extracted images to a file
Explore the advanced features of this PDF API
Click through to view the code, generate the PDF, and download the sample
- Document
- Create new PDFs from scratch
- Edit document properties, information, and metadata
- Extract data from a specific position (NEW)
- Incremental update
- Load large documents
- Large TextLayout
- Linearized PDF
- Load and analyze and/or modify existing PDFs and save them
- Merge and split documents
- Copy and move documents and pages
- Page display properties
- Page size and orientation
- Search text in the document
- Tagged PDF support
- Tagged text layout
- XMP Metadata
- Fonts & Special Characters
- Collections of fonts from program-provided font files
- Font from File
- Extract fonts used in a PDF (NEW)
- EUDC fonts
- OpenType fonts
- Precise control over font embedding
- Standard PDF fonts
- TrueType fonts
- Fallback fonts
- Font collections and loading system fonts
- Font features
- Ligatures
- Surrogates etc.
- Surrogates Portable
- Unicode Ranges
- WOFF fonts
- Graphics
- Clip regions
- Linear and radial gradients
- Hatch fill
- Round rectangles
- Shapes - Ellipse, Rectangle, Polygon, Line, Path
- SoftMask transparent elements (NEW)
- Stroke and fill shapes
- Transformations
- Image Support
- Add image from file
- Add image from stream
- Draw transparent images
- Extract images
- Support for JPEG, PNG and other popular image formats
- Layout Rendering
- Arabic columns
- Balanced columns
- Inline images
- Japanese columns
- Tabs alignment
- Text around images
- Navigation
- Destinations
- Image links
- Link to URL
- Add, modify, and delete outlines
- Page-level navigation (NEW)
- Annotations
- Add, delete, modify, get annotations
- Button annotations - Button, pushbutton, signature button
- File Attachments
- Shape annotations - Circle, line, polygon, square
- Sound annotations (NEW)
- Specialized annotations - Free text, ink, popup, watermark, widget
- Stamp annotations
- Attachments
- Add document level file attachments
- Barcodes
- Create shipping labels
- Add barcodes
- Supported Barcodes -
- Ansi39, Ansi39x, Codabar, Code_128_A, Code_128_B, Code_128_C, Code_128auto, Code_2_of_5, Code_93, Code25intlv, Code39, Code39x, Code49, Code93x, DataMatrix, EAN_13, EAN_8, EAN128FNC1, IntelligentMail, JapanesePostal, Matrix_2_of_5, MicroPDF417, MSI, Pdf417, PostNet, QRCode, RM4SCC, RSS14, RSS14Stacked, RSS14StackedOmnidirectional, RSS14Truncated, RSSExpanded, RSSExpandedStacked, RSSLimited, UCCEAN128, UPC_A, UPC_E0, UPC_E1, MicroQRCode, ITF14, Code11, SSCC18, Telepen, Pharmacode, PZN, HIBCCode128, HIBCCode39, ISBN, ISSN, ISMN, Iata25, Bc412, Plessey, IntelligentMailPackage
- Text Handling
- Bold/Italic Emulation
- Breakdown of text into clusters and words
- Character Formatting
- Drop Caps
- Extract Text
- Filling Text
- Line breaks
- Multi-column text
- Multi-formatted text
- Multiple languages
- Nested Lists
- Numbered List
- Outline Text
- Paginated text
- Paragraph alignment
- Paragraph formatting
- Include horizontal text fragments in vertical text (NEW)
- Rotated text
- Script identification
- Search text
- Superscript and subscript (NEW)
- Support for multiple languages
- Text alignment
- Text rendering
- Text trimming
- Vertical text direction (clockwise, counterclockwise)
- Widow and orphan control
- Text Rendering
- Base line alignment
- Character and word spacing
- Column balancing
- Embedded, inline, and anchored objects in text
- Far East Asian languages
- Fonts and font style different in same paragraph
- Hanging indents
- Line and paragraph spacing
- RTL languages
- Single and multiline text
- Text and background colors
- Text and paragraph alignment, including full justification
- Underline and strikeout
- Forms
- Add, get, modify, delete form fields
- AcroForm fields
- Checkbox field
- CombText field
- Fill form fields
- Flatten fields
- Form actions
- Move field to new location
- PushButton field
- RadioButton field
- Set button click script
- Set Submit URL
- Signature Field
- Text Field
- Page
- Delete PDF pages
- Easy page headers
- Get a particular page
- Get and set page properties
- Get page count
- Insert empty page in a PDF file
- Insert PDF pages
- Reorder pages
- Supported PDF versions
- PDF 1.3-1.7
- PDF/A
- PDF/UA
Documents for PDF Samples Browser
Your full-fledged ASP.NET Core sample browser includes all the major features, real-time PDFs, and use cases. Download individual .NET Core samples that can run as standalones in C# and VB.Net. The demos also include full sample code in C# and VB with comments on every step that can help bring you onboard quickly with Documents for PDF.
Launch the DemoWhat's New
What's New in GcPDF
The new SoftMask feature supports drawing transparent elements on PDFs.
Apply text outlining and filling in.
Include horizontal text fragments in vertical text without rotation, including rendering Latin characters horizontally ("tate chu yoko").
Add sound annotations to PDF files.
This support adds specific page navigation features to PDF documents, including the ability to add page labels to pages so that PDF viewers would show a page label.Extract a list of fonts used in a PDF document
GcPdf has been supporting saving PDF documents to PDF/A. With GcPdf, you can now create, edit, and save PDF/A documents of all conformance levels.
Extract data from PDF files from specific position.
Format text as subscript or superscript in PDF.
Tagged content enables screen reader softwares and other assistive technologies to read PDFs. Users can create and load PDF/UA compliant files, and create, load, modify and modify tags in existing PDFs. Try the Tagged PDF demo
A key PDF editing feature has been added! Users can now merge multiple PDF documents into a single document; split up a PDF into multiple documents; and copy and move pages within a PDF or between PDFs. Additionally, a FormXObject, a space-efficient way to store repetitive content, can be created from any PDF page and reused in the same or other documents. Try Merge Demo
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