PDFium VS PDF-LIB

PDFium Reviews

1. Basker    

   about 2 years ago
   Lousy platform which is incompatible with Adobe Acrobat

   PDF Files created using PDFium cannot be opened properly in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC... they simply open as Blank pages.... Totally Useless software given it is doesnt work with the most popular PDF reader on earth !!

   🏁 Competitors: Adobe Reader

   👎 Cons:    Not compatible with adobe acrobat

PDF-LIB Reviews

PDFium mentions (1)

• QuestPDF 2022.3 - a new release of the modern, open-source library for PDF generation 🎉 Please help me make it popular 🚀

  For example this one has an example of doing that on their home page: https://pdfium.patagames.com/. Source: about 2 years ago

PDF-LIB mentions (15)

• DEMO - Voice to PDF - Complete PDF documents with voice commands using the Claude 3 Opus API

  WritePdf: used for writing the final completed PDF after receiving the response from the Claude 3 Opus API, this uses the PDF-lib library to manipulate and modify the final file. - Source: dev.to / 1 day ago

• Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs

  I'm facing that same pain point of programmatic PDF filling. I noodled around in the PDF format and learned it's a bit difficult to deal with fonts and formatting. But I think this client-side library works well enough, as a start: https://pdf-lib.js.org/#:~:text=a%20single%20document.-,Fill%20Forms,-Create%20new%20forms I've also heard of one paid API that I forgot but seemed to work well, and this related... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Thinking of throwing in the towel and hiring help - small website business

  I do not know if some plugin exists, but maybe you have to take a look at https://pdf-lib.js.org/. Source: 12 months ago

• Is node the right choice for HTML to PDF conversion?

  PDFmake or pdf-lib would be the way to go in my opinion. Source: over 1 year ago

• I made a free PDF editor that works in your browser

  Sure! You can build your own PDF editor with a combination of PDF.js and PDF-lib. Source: over 1 year ago