Adobe PDF Library SDK vs Datalogics Adobe PDF Library

Adobe PDF Library SDK

Figure	Adobe PDF Library SDK	Datalogics Adobe PDF Library
Price from	—	$499.92/mo
Free plan	—	—
Free trial	—	Yes
Open source	—	—
Windows	Yes	Yes
macOS	Yes	Yes
Linux	Yes	Yes
API	Yes	Yes
Self-hosted	Yes	Yes
Plans published	1	1
Spec score · PDF SDKs	7.8 (#17)	8.6 (#2)
Intended users	Adobe describes the SDK as intended for OEMs, independent software vendors, systems integrators, and enterprise IT developers.	Datalogics describes the library for software companies and enterprise development teams building document workflows, enterprise applications, SaaS products, and OEM software.
PDF operations	The SDK supports creating, manipulating, assembling, rendering, compressing, encrypting, and linearizing PDF documents.	Features include creating, annotating, splitting, merging, flattening, and converting PDFs, plus text extraction, search, image rendering, and optimization.
Purpose	Adobe PDF Library SDK provides functions for building third-party applications and workflows that generate, manipulate, render, and print PDF documents.	Adobe PDF Library is a developer SDK for creating, converting, modifying, securing, and processing PDFs programmatically.
Support	Adobe states that only the last two major SDK versions with interim updates are eligible for developer support.	Datalogics provides product support through developer resources, a knowledge base, and a customer portal for tickets and ticket-status checks.

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