
About PDFTron SDK
The PDFTron SDK is the most comprehensive Microsoft Office and PDF SDK on the market. It's built in-house to bring accurate and reliable rendering to your digital content of any size and complexity. It scales with your goals, as our APIs add MS Office, CAD, and even video collaboration capabilities to your application on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android, iOS, and the web.
Our PDF SDK brings accurate PDF viewing, annotating, editing, creation, and generation to any web, mobile, desktop or server framework or application. This allows you to own the full document and data lifecycle by deploying on your own infrastructure without worrying about third-party server dependencies. Major functionalities include:
Annotation & Collaboration
Mark up PDFs, MS Office documents, and other formats with highlights, stamps, and notes. Support real-time collaboration, XFDF, and all PDF annotation types.
PDF Viewer
Reflow content and view even the most challenging PDFs quickly and reliably. Embed ready-to-go controls or create your own by diving into the source code.
Office Document Viewer
Add support for viewing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents to any browser or app -- no conversion or server dependencies required.
Conversion
High-fidelity direct document conversion from 30+ file formats. Preserve quality, vector graphics, text, hyperlinks, colors, fonts, and metadata.
PDF Form Filling
Support interactive form filling, FDF, and embedded JavaScript. Or programmatically create, pre-fill, sign, extract, and flatten PDF forms.
Edit & Manipulate
Programmatically or interactively insert pages and content, append, split, remove, crop, reorder, rotate, export, edit, and much more.
PDFTron is trusted by thousands of innovative start-ups, governments, and Fortune 500 companies because of the assurances it offers:
Best Developer Experience
Build powerful PDF solutions with ease using elegant, well-documented, cross-platform APIs. And tap into all the developer resources you need at any time.
Ultimate Control
Design unique user experiences with fully customizable UI source code at your disposal, backed by a high-performing SDK and secure, stable APIs.
Faster Time-to-Market
Turbocharge your time-to-market by leveraging slick out-of-the-box widgets, and an industry-proven PDF SDK driven by 20 years of innovation.
Future-Proof
Accommodate future use cases with the most complete PDF SDK on the market, supporting all major platforms, 30+ file formats, and hundreds of unique features.
For more information and to try for free, visit www.pdftron.com.
Pricing starting from:
Not provided by vendor
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
Key benefits of PDFTron SDK
Best Developer Experience
Build powerful PDF solutions with ease using elegant, well-documented, cross-platform APIs. And tap into all the developer resources you need at any time.
Ultimate Control
Design unique user experiences with fully customizable UI source code at your disposal, backed by a high-performing SDK and secure, stable APIs.
Faster Time-to-Market
Turbocharge your time-to-market by leveraging slick out-of-the-box widgets, and an industry-proven PDF SDK driven by 20 years of innovation.
Future-Proof
Accommodate future use cases with the most complete PDF SDK on the market, supporting all major platforms, 30+ file formats, and hundreds of unique features.
Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Markets
Canada, United States
Supported Languages
English
Pricing starting from:
Not provided by vendor
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Features
Total features of PDFTron SDK: 22
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PDF Reader Pro

mSalesApp

Soda PDF

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- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Best PDF SDK in the market
Reviewed on 28/1/2022
All good so far. Much better than competitors
All good so far. Much better than competitors
Pros
Updates, Customer support, Technical Support
Cons
Nothing, I am struggling to find out something negative
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Leader in the industry
Reviewed on 15/12/2021
I consider it as a leader in the industry.
I consider it as a leader in the industry.
Pros
Quite comprehensive product based on the company development with no dependencies -as far as I know- with open source libraries.
Cons
Moving from one version to another is not that smooth process.
The product is rather expensive.
- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Monthly for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Seamless experience
Reviewed on 27/12/2022
Pros
We are very pleased to find that adding new features and migrating to a new version is so straightforward. The annotation tools are exactly what we needed for an internal document collaboration tool.
Cons
Although there is nothing negative about what they offer today, I would like them to add additional PDF services. These issues often took a while to resolve, sometimes taking months, but they were ultimately fixed. Fortunately, older versions would still work which gave us the option of rolling back while waiting for a fix to arrive.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10
Not happy at all with support we are seriously looking at alternatives if support does not...
Reviewed on 1/2/2022
Sales team are good but Technical support not listening to us or not helpful on critical issues....
Sales team are good but Technical support not listening to us or not helpful on critical issues. eg.. Digital signature issues,.
Pros
Compared to Adobe it is hard to find anything as good. This was the best alternative at the time.
Cons
Service on issues and features is slow and they do not listen and push back. They close tickets that are not resolved...very annoying issues system.
Response from PDFTron Systems
Thank you for your feedback. We're sorry to hear that the tech support experience did not meet your expectations. Our support team will reach out to you directly and assist with any critical issues you're facing.
- Industry: Insurance
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Enterprise level functionality but still easy to use
Reviewed on 15/12/2021
The pre-sales technical support was excellent and made it really fast and easy to spin up a POC .
The pre-sales technical support was excellent and made it really fast and easy to spin up a POC .
Pros
PDFTron was by far the most feature rich product offering we looked at. Also the fact that they don't just wrap another open source rendering engine like PDFium gave us confidence they had built their product from the ground up and had total control.
Cons
The price tag was on the higher end compared to other alternatives but for enterprise software I think its worth it for all the features they offer. They were also flexible during pricing talks to find a comfortable landing spot that worked for both parties.
PDFTron SDK FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for PDFTron SDK.Q. What type of pricing plans does PDFTron SDK offer?
PDFTron SDK offers the following pricing plans:
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
PDFTron’s SDK is quoted based on the breadth of technology (APIs, features) and the distribution scope (external or internal users). These variable factors make the price of a license very flexible to represent the value the SDK generates for you. Contact sales to get a quote for your custom license!
Q. Who are the typical users of PDFTron SDK?
PDFTron SDK has the following typical customers:
2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1,000, 1,001-5,000
Q. What languages does PDFTron SDK support?
PDFTron SDK supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does PDFTron SDK support mobile devices?
PDFTron SDK supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does PDFTron SDK integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations PDFTron SDK has
Q. What level of support does PDFTron SDK offer?
PDFTron SDK offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
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