Pdftools Documentation
Production-grade PDF processing SDKs and services for document pipelines that cannot fail. Built to run inside your infrastructure.
Trusted by teams processing thousands or millions of documents.
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Flagship SDKs and services. Click through to guides, API references, and getting-started material.
Pdftools SDK
Convert, validate, compress, and optimize PDF documents with a single SDK.
Toolbox add-on
Create, modify, merge, and split PDFs granularly with flexible programming control.
Conversion Service
All-in-one solution for automating your document workflows.
AI Smart Redact
Detect and redact personally identifiable information from PDFs using AI.
PDF Viewer SDK
Integrate high-quality PDF rendering and annotations in browsers.
Additional products
SDKs, command-line utilities, and services.
Pdftools OCR Service
Add OCR text layer and make scanned PDFs searchable.
Image to PDF Converter
Convert images to PDF and PDF/A
PDF Analysis & Repair
Analyze and repair PDF documents
PDF Extract
Extract content from PDF documents
PDF Merge Split
Merge and split PDF documents
PDF OCR
Legacy OCR to add text layer to scanned PDFs.
PDF Optimizer
Optimize and reduce the size of your PDF files
PDF Printer
High-performance automated PDF printing
PDF Producer
Create PDF and PDF/A from Windows applications
PDF Security
Sign, encrypt, and protect PDF documents
PDF Validator
Validate PDF conformance to standards
PDF to Image Converter
Convert PDF pages to images
PDF to PDF/A Converter
Convert PDF to PDF/A for archiving
Scan to PDF Server
Service-based scan post-processing
Legacy products
Classic Pdftools products. Maintained for existing customers.