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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Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC PDF Library
The Syncfusion .NET Framework PDF library (Essential PDF) is a feature-rich and high-performance .NET Framework PDF library that is used to create, read, and edit PDF documents programmatically without Adobe dependencies.

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Key Features
- Support to create PDF files from scratch.
- Open, modify and save existing PDF files.
- Support to add text, various formats of images, tables and shapes.
- Support for creation, filling and flattening forms (AcroForms and XFA).
- Support to compress existing PDF files.
- Ability to merge and split PDF files.
- 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 the signature in PDF document.
- Support to find the corrupted PDF document.
- Support to run the PDF applications in multi-thread and its thread-safe.
System Requirements
Getting started
You can fetch the Syncfusion .NET PDF library NuGet by simply running the command Install-Package Syncfusion.Pdf.AspNet.Mvc4 from the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio.
Try the following code example to create a hello world PDF document.
using (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));
// Open the document in browser after saving it
document.Save("Output.pdf", HttpContext.Current.Response, HttpReadType.Save);
}
For more information to get started, refer to our Getting Started Documentation page.
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 license 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 27,000+ customers and more than 1 million users, including large financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies, and global IT consultancies. Today, we provide 1700+ components and frameworks for web (Blazor, Flutter, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web Forms, JavaScript, Angular, React, Vue, and jQuery), mobile (.NET MAUI, Flutter, Xamarin, UWP, and JavaScript), and desktop development (WinForms, WPF, WinUI, .NET MAUI, Flutter,Xamarin, 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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