PDFium
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PDFium (Apache License 2.0) | No charge or royalty under the license · build and embed the source yourself | Free |
As pdfium.googlesource.com lists them, read 4 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Facts from PDFium's own pages
- API stability limit
- Only headers under public/ are intended for embedders; code outside that directory may change at any time and should not be called directly. · pdfium.googlesource.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Architecture limit
- The project says some code may not work properly on big-endian architectures and that supporting them is not currently a priority. · pdfium.googlesource.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Build tools
- PDFium uses Chromium's build tooling, with GN generating build files and Ninja executing them. · pdfium.googlesource.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Compiler support
- PDFium currently supports Clang, allows community-contributed GCC patches, and does not accept MSVC patches. · pdfium.googlesource.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Document features
- The core document logic includes bookmarks, annotations, interactive AcroForms, and links. · pdfium.googlesource.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Embedding
- The public directory contains API headers intended for use by applications embedding PDFium, and the project aims to keep those APIs stable. · pdfium.googlesource.com, 4 Oct 2026
- JavaScript and XFA
- Builds enable JavaScript and XFA form support by default; either can be disabled, and XFA requires JavaScript. · pdfium.googlesource.com, 4 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository license grants perpetual, worldwide, no-charge, royalty-free rights to use, reproduce, modify, and distribute the work subject to its terms. · pdfium.googlesource.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Platforms and architectures
- The project documents builds for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android; default CPU targets are x64 on Windows, Linux, and Mac, and arm for Android. · pdfium.googlesource.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- PDFium is a C++ implementation of the PDF specification that can parse PDF content and render pages. · pdfium.googlesource.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Security reporting
- The project directs security bug reports to Google Bug Hunters and lets project members and embedders use Chromium's security bug template. · pdfium.googlesource.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Support and community
- The project lists PDFium, PDFium Reviews, and PDFium Bugs mailing lists; the reviews and bugs lists are typically read-only. · pdfium.googlesource.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Test utility
- The standalone pdfium_test utility can read, parse, and rasterize PDF pages into PPM or PNG images. · pdfium.googlesource.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Text tools
- PDFium's text module supports extracting text, identifying reading order, and searching within a page. · pdfium.googlesource.com, 4 Oct 2026
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