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imaging SDKs that accelerate development

PDF
Need a ready-to-deploy PDF viewer?
Need a PDF conversion utility?

SDKs to let you easily create, modify, enhance, compress, and display PDF files.

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.

Click to view the Viewing Solutions Comparison TableUse our comparison table to determine whether PDF Xpress or ImageGear is the best solution for your application.
High-level for fast implementation

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.

PDF Xpress
.NET 32/64-bit | ActiveX 32-bit
Learn more about PDF Xpress
Extensive low-level manipulation

A comprehensive SDK that allows PDF experts more granular access to the PDF, including rendering, creation and low-level access to PDF objects.

ImageGear
.NET 32/64-bit | ActiveX 32-bit
DLL 32/64-bit | UNIX | Linux
Learn more about ImageGear

PDF Solutions Comparison Table

Feature PDF Xpress ImageGear
(PDF Support)
Read PDFs thru version 1.7 from disk or memory • •
Write PDFs to disk or memory v 1.6 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) •  
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.