XpdfReader

Spec sheet

Purpose

Xpdf is an open source PDF viewer and toolkit that includes a PDF text extractor, a PDF-to-PostScript converter, and other utilities.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com

Free plan

YesRead 24 Sep 2026 · xpdfreader.com

Integrations

The repository lists FreeType, libpng, and zlib as libraries used by Xpdf.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com

Support

The project says users who cannot compile Xpdf on their system can email for help.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com

License

Xpdf is licensed under GPL version 2 or 3, and the project states that it is not licensed under later GPL versions.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com

Command-line tools

The tools include pdftotext, pdftops, pdftohtml, pdfinfo, pdffonts, pdfdetach, pdftoppm, pdftopng, and pdfimages.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com

Commercial licensing

The project says developers incorporating Xpdf source into a distributed program can use the GPL or purchase a commercial source license.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com

Configuration

Xpdf utilities can read an optional configuration file described in the xpdfrc(5) man page.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com

Distribution requirement

Redistributed unmodified binary copies must include the README, man pages or help files, COPYING, and COPYING3 documentation.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com

OCR support

noneRead 24 Sep 2026 · xpdfreader.com

Offline access

YesRead 24 Sep 2026 · xpdfreader.com

Platform support

desktopRead 24 Sep 2026 · xpdfreader.com

Supported systems

The viewer and command-line utilities run on Linux, Windows, and OS X; the command-line tools are also described as portable to systems with a decent C++ compiler.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com

Viewer toolkit

The Xpdf viewer uses the Qt cross-platform GUI toolkit.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com

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