About Apryse PDF SDK
Apryse, previously known as PDFTron, takes document solutions to the next level, making work better and life simpler.
As a global leader in document processing technology, Apryse gives developers, enterprise customers and small businesses the tools they need to reach their document goals faster and easier.
Our product portfolio includes Apryse SDK, Fluent, iText and XODO. Apryse technology works with all major platforms and a wide variety of unique file types.
Key benefits of Apryse PDF 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.
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- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Apryse makes it easy for small product companies to deliver professional features
Reviewed on 28/4/2023
Pros
As a one person product team I was able to implement Apryse in a matter of days and offer a whole new set of features to our customers
Cons
Earlier on the documentation left me wanting more, but it has improved over the years.
- 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: Government Administration
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Easy To Use, Difficult to Customize
Reviewed on 21/4/2023
Great then frustrating. Great in that we were able to implement and tweak easily with your support...
Great then frustrating. Great in that we were able to implement and tweak easily with your support team's help.Frustrating with certain "gotches" like client adding text to the DOCX file and seeing footers moved to next page. I have not been able to overcome that issue as yet.
Pros
Quick and easy implementation on a new project
Cons
I made use of a ready-made pdftodocx.exe from your downloads. It works well except for some things. I need to make use of the full SDK in order to take advantage of the latest developments as you are not providing a ready-made pdftodocx.exe any longer.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
Go-to market failure, product failed to meet requirements and no refund
Reviewed on 31/1/2023
Sales team communicated that we could test the Webviewer module for free as it is open source, but...
Sales team communicated that we could test the Webviewer module for free as it is open source, but having access to test the digital signature module we needed to subscribe the add-on. We were pressured in time and we agreed to pay in advance to have access to the feature. Wrongly were we aware that we could test the whole suite of add-ons for free using the trial key.After 6500$ invested in PDFTRON, their product simply didn’t work as advertised, leaving us empty handed and a whole mess to cleanup up in our product.I could stop here, but things got worse afterwards. We were extremely frustrated with this situation. Missing our go-live target was a strong blow to the team that had a major job to implement everything from scratch properly.So we reached out to PDFTRON to get our money back. We got barriers upon barriers, calls after calls, departments after departments and the same message “This issue is in management hands and I cannot do anything about it.”.Another module we requested was PDF/A conversion. After testing with many different files, we found one situation were the conversion failed. So we could not rely on it.For reference, we started implementation on September 12, 2022. Our go-live target was October 20, 2022. On November 30, 2022, we decided to give up on PDFTRON. On January 30, 2023 we are still waiting for a proper response and our money back.
Pros
Having a suite of products around PDF covers all our needs. Even though it didn’t work for us.
Cons
Our relationship was painful from the start.We were announced that our use case for digital signatures was pretty common and would be a 2 week integration effort.Those 2 weeks turned into more than a month!Working around PDFTRON Webviewer to customize behavior is almost impossible.We tried, unsuccessfully, manipulating the interface to implement a similar experience you get when signing in Docusign for example.If the UI is painful to work with, using the digital signature APIs a whole set of problems.Our requirement for digital signatures was to sign the document hash externally, through multiple providers, and use PDFTRON to complete the signing process.Well, after trying 3!! Different methods from their SDKs (Webviewer client side, Nodejs server side and Java server side) we always got different errors during API calls.We reported all this issues to their support and got into video calls with the product tech team as well. They got to see the errors first hand and could not reproduce. Please consider this fact as well: the time to answer a ticket was more than a week!! We had to pressure their team to get an answer and to this day no solution was presented. In the end we gave up.Pricing transparency is a big con in PDFTRON. Everything is an add-on, requiring specific licensing terms and contracts.
- 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.
Apryse PDF SDK FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Apryse PDF SDK.Q. What type of pricing plans does Apryse PDF SDK offer?
Apryse PDF SDK offers the following pricing plans:
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Scalable and straightforward consumption pricing: Pay as you go, for what you need, and when you need it. For more information on licensing options and packages, explore our Feature Chart https://apryse.com/feature-chart, our Pricing page https://apryse.com/pricing, or contact us at https://apryse.com/form/contact-sales and let's simply have a chat! Note: Some platforms support more features than others. Check https://docs.apryse.com/ or contact us for more information.
Q. Who are the typical users of Apryse PDF SDK?
Apryse PDF 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 Apryse PDF SDK support?
Apryse PDF SDK supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Apryse PDF SDK support mobile devices?
Apryse PDF SDK supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Apryse PDF SDK integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Apryse PDF SDK has
Q. What level of support does Apryse PDF SDK offer?
Apryse PDF SDK offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
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