Add PDF Functionality

Glyph & Cog offers a full line of software components designed to help you add PDF capability into your software.

We offer products for viewing, printing, text extraction, and more – on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Glyph & Cog knows PDF!

full list of PDF libraries and components

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PDFdeconstruct is a command-line tool that extracts PDF content into XML files.

Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, as well as source licensing.

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Now available: Glyph & Cog's PDFtoSVG converter.

PDFtoSVG is a command line tool, available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Source licensing is also available.

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XpdfReader

Xpdf is the original open source PDF viewer, first released in 1995.

The XpdfReader project includes Linux and Windows PDF viewer applications, as well as cross-platform (Linux/Windows/Mac) command line tools for text extraction, PostScript conversion, and more.

XpdfReader web site

XpdfWidget/Qt

XpdfWidget/Qt is a PDF viewer widget for the Qt framework. It can be used to embed a PDF viewer into your Qt application.

Supports Qt 4.x and Qt 5.x, with initial support for Qt Quick / QML.

Available for source licensing.

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Source Code Licensing

We offer source code licenses for Xpdf. License our high-quality C++ codebase, and add PDF support to your application.

Additional modules are available for:

  • Windows viewing/printing
  • DeviceN (CMYK + spot color) rasterization, including overprint simulation and color management
  • PDF split/merge

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