pdf-lib

Working in every modern JavaScript environment, pdf-lib is a library that allows you to create new PDF documents and edit existing documents. Node has been tested in browser, Deno, and React Native environments. It offers PDF manipulation with extensive features such as text drawing, form management, and page copying.

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Hopding · PDF & Document Processing

STARS8.7K
FORKS930
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CONTRIBUTORS35
VERSIONv1.9.0
UPDATED2 yr ago
PDFJavaScriptLibraryTypeScriptMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Adobe Acrobat, ABBYY FineReader, Foxit PDF Editor

What can it do?
  • Add new pages to existing PDF documents or edit existing pages.
  • You create, fill out, and stabilize the PDF forms.
  • Bury custom fonts with images in PNG and JPEG format to documents
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  • • Last update 2 years ago
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Is the author of pdf-lib okay?

    “If one needs to work with pdf in a JS environment one will sooner or later cross paths with pdf-lib. I noticed the last release was almost 5 years ago and the maintainers git contributions stopped at the same time. There is a second github account under the same name but the…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Is the author of pdf-lib okay?

    “Last account activity was 2024-07-08 to push changes to the personal website andrewjdillon.com.[1][2] Last account activity to contribute to any to any repository was 2021-11-28 to comment on the hopding/pdf-lib repository.[2] It's clearly now an unmaintained repository with 4+…”

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