The Syncfusion Essential PDF is a .NET PDF library that enables your .NET applications to read, write, and manipulate existing PDF documents. It has various features such table creation, PDF form creation and filling, digital signature, and advanced PDF encryption. It also has various PDF manipulation features such as PDF compression, redaction, split and merge PDF, watermark, import and export PDF form data, replace or remove images, extract text and find text.
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The Syncfusion .NET PDF library is a feature-rich and high-performance .NET PDF library that is used to create, read, and edit PDF documents programmatically without Adobe dependencies.
Key features:
- Support to create PDF files from scratch.
- Support to add text, various formats of images, tables and shapes.
- Support for creation, filling and flattening forms (AcroForms and XFA).
- Open, modify and save existing PDF files.
- Support to compress existing PDF files.
- Ability to merge and split PDF files.
- Support for Optical Character Recognition by using Tesseract engine.
- Ability to convert HTML, RTF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and XPS to PDF.
- Ability to encrypt and decrypt PDF files with advanced standards.
- Support to add, modify and remove interactive elements such as bookmarks, annotations and attachments.
- Support to add barcode in the PDF files.
- Support to convert PDF to PDF/A-1B conformance.
- Support for PDF/X1-A,PDF/A1-B,PDF/A3-B and PDF/A1-B conformances.
- Support to create accessible PDF or tagged PDF (PDF/UA) with section 508 compliant.
- Support to redact text and images in the PDF files.
- Support to digitally sign and validate signature in PDF document.
- Support to find the corrupted PDF document.
- Support to run the PDF applications in multi-thread and its thread safe.
Getting Started
You can fetch the Syncfusion .NET MVC PDF library NuGet by simply running Install-Package Syncfusion.Pdf.AspNet.Mvc4 from the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio.
You can also try some code examples of common use cases from our GitHub Repository.
Create a PDF Document programmatically using C#
The following code example illustrates how to create a PDF document.
//Create a PDF document
PdfDocument document = new PdfDocument();
//Add a page to the document
PdfPage page = document.Pages.Add();
//Create PDF graphics for the page
PdfGraphics graphics = page.Graphics;
//Set the standard font
PdfFont font = new PdfStandardFont(PdfFontFamily.Helvetica, 20);
//Draw the text
graphics.DrawString("Hello World!!!", font, PdfBrushes.Black, new PointF(0, 0));
//Save the document into file
document.Save("sample.pdf");
//Close the document
document.Close(true);
Manipulate the PDF document programmatically using C#
The following code example illustrates how to manipulate the PDF document.
//Load the PDF document
PdfLoadedDocument document = new PdfLoadedDocument("input.pdf");
//Get first page from document
PdfLoadedPage page = document.Pages[0] as PdfLoadedPage;
//Create PDF graphics for the page
PdfGraphics graphics = page.Graphics;
//Set the standard font.
PdfFont font = new PdfStandardFont(PdfFontFamily.Helvetica, 20);
//Draw the text.
graphics.DrawString("Hello World!!!", font, PdfBrushes.Black, new Syncfusion.Drawing.PointF(0, 0));
//Save the document into file
document.Save("sample.pdf");
//Close the document.
document.Close(true);
Resources
Product page: Syncfusion PDF Framework
Documentation: Syncfusion PDF library
Online demo: Syncfusion PDF library - Online demos
Knowledge Base: Syncfusion PDF library - Knowledge Base
Ebooks: Syncfusion PDF library - Ebooks
Support and feedback
- For any other queries, reach our Syncfusion support team or post the queries through the community forums.
- Request new feature through Syncfusion feedback portal.
License
This is a commercial product and requires a paid license for possession or use. Syncfusion’s licensed software, including this component, is subject to the terms and conditions of Syncfusion's EULA. You can purchase a licnense here or start a free 30-day trial here.
About Syncfusion
Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Research Triangle Park, N.C., Syncfusion has more than 26,000+ customers and more than 1 million users, including large financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies, and global IT consultancies.
Today, we provide 1600+ components and frameworks for web (Blazor, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET WebForms, JavaScript, Angular, React, Vue, and Flutter), mobile (Xamarin, Flutter, UWP, and JavaScript), and desktop development (WinForms, WPF, WinUI, Flutter and UWP). We provide ready-to-deploy enterprise software for dashboards, reports, data integration, and big data processing. Many customers have saved millions in licensing fees by deploying our software.
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