PoDoFo

podofo.github.io · checked 7 Oct 2026

#13 · PDF SDKs

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PoDoFo is a free portable C++ library for parsing, modifying, and creating PDF files.

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PoDoFoFree portable C++ PDF library · No rendering support · Text writing lacks proper shaping/kerningFree

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Facts

Website: podofo.github.io
Price: Free tier
Free trial: No
Integrations: The project documents builds through APT, Homebrew, vcpkg, Conan, and CMake package integration.
Intended users: The project describes PoDoFo as a C++17 PDF manipulation library and documents its use as a library in CMake applications.
License: The library is offered under LGPL 2.0 or later or, at the user's option, MPL 2.0; the tools use GPL 2.0 or later.
Limitations: PoDoFo does not support rendering PDF content, and text writing does not yet perform proper text shaping or kerning.
PDF features: Its C++17 API supports PDF parsing, entity inspection, writing, and incremental updates.
Requirements: Building the library requires a C++17 compiler, CMake 3.23, and dependencies including FreeType, OpenSSL, LibXml2, and zlib.
Signing: It supports PAdES-B compliant PDF signing, RSA/ECDSA, and asynchronous or deferred signing.
Standards: It can preserve PDF/A and PDF/UA compliance in supported operations such as adding annotations or form fields.
Text and fonts: It supports Unicode text extraction, CJK text handling, text drawing, CID encoding generation, and font subsetting.
Thread safety: The library is generally not thread-safe; its documentation advises using objects on their creation thread or guarding document access with a mutex.
Tools and support: The separate PoDoFo tools are unsupported, untested, and unmaintained, and their compilation is disabled by default; the project directs technical support inquiries to GitHub issues.

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