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Whether you just need to arrange pages and bookmarks, or you need to control the details of every PDF object, we have the PDF toolkit to handle PDF and PDF/A files in your application.
Use our comparison table to determine whether PDF Xpress or ImageGear is the best solution for your application.
A high-level SDK for easy manipulation of PDF documents. Render PDFs, create image-based PDF files, edit bookmarks and metadata, convert to PDF/A, and more.
A comprehensive SDK that allows PDF experts more granular access to the PDF, including rendering, creation and low-level access to PDF objects.
| Feature | PDF Xpress | ImageGear (PDF Support) |
ImageGear for .NET (PDF Support) |
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| Read PDFs thru version 1.7 from disk or memory | • | • | • | ||
| Write PDFs to disk or memory | v 1.6 | thru 1.7 | thru 1.7 | ||
| Handle PDFs with images compressed with LZW, flate, RLE, G3/G4, JBIG2, JPEG, or JPEG 2000 | • | • | • | ||
| Create new PDF documents | • | • | • | ||
| Insert, move, and delete pages | • | • | • | ||
| Extract text from PDFs | • | • | • | ||
| Add, edit, and delete Metadata | • | • | • | ||
| Search and highlight text strings | • | • | • | ||
| Rasterize and Linearize PDFs | • | • | • | ||
| Read and write PDF annotations | • | • | • | ||
| Import XFDF annotations | • | ||||
| Create PDF/A-1b files (image-only) | • | • | |||
| Extract images and pages | • | • | • | ||
| Verify PDF/A and PDF/X compliance | • | • | |||
| Edit PDF elements and objects | • | • | |||
| Read and edit Security settings | • | • | |||
| Work with U3D content | • | • | |||
| Modify Layers and Destinations | • | • | |||
| Open PostScript and EPS files | • | • | |||
| Read and write EPS files | • | • | |||
| Font creation, embedding, subsets | • | • | |||
| Advanced CMYK and Pantone color support | • | • | |||
| * Note: PDF Xpress requires the ImagXpress SDK for image manipulation or display. | |||||






