UniPDF - PDF for Go
UniDoc's UniPDF is a powerful PDF library for Go (golang) with capabilities for creating and processing PDF files. The library is written and supported by the FoxyUtils.com website, where the library is used to power many of the PDF services offered.
News
- unidoc is being renamed to unipdf and will be maintained under https://github.com/unidoc/unipdf
- The old repository will remain under https://github.com/unidoc/unidoc for backwards compatibility and will be read-only. All development will be under the unipdf repository.
- The initial release of unipdf v3.0.0 will be compliant with Go modules from the start.
Features
unipdf has a powerful set of features both for reading, processing and writing PDF. The following list describes some key features:
- Create PDF reports
- Create PDF invoices
- Advanced table generation in the creator with subtable support
- Paragraph in creator handling multiple styles within the same paragraph
- Table of contents automatically generated
- Text extraction significantly improved in quality and foundation in place for vectorized (position-based) text extraction (XY)
- Image extraction with coordinates
- Merge PDF pages
- Merge page contents
- Split PDF pages and change page order
- Rotate pages
- Extract text from PDF files
- Extract images
- Add images to pages
- Compress and optimize PDF output
- Draw watermark on PDF files
- Advanced page manipulation (blocks/templates)
- Load PDF templates and modify
- Flatten forms and generate appearance streams
- Fill out forms and FDF merging
- FDF merge and form filling via JSON data
- Form creation
- Unlock PDF files / remove password
- Protect PDF files with a password
- Digital signing validation and signing
- CCITTFaxDecode decoding and encoding support
- Append mode
Installation
With modules:
go get github.com/unidoc/unipdf/v3
How can I convince myself and my boss to buy unipdf rather using a free alternative?
The choice is yours. There are multiple respectable efforts out there that can do many good things.
In UniDoc, we work hard to provide production quality builds taking every detail into consideration and providing excellent support to our customers. See our testimonials for example.
Security. We take security very seriously and we restrict access to github.com/unidoc/unipdf repository with protected branches and only the founders have access and every commit is reviewed prior to being accepted.
The profits are invested back into making unipdf better. We want to make the best possible product and in order to do that we need the best people to contribute. A large fraction of the profits made goes back into developing unipdf. That way we have been able to get many excellent people to work and contribute to unipdf that would not be able to contribute their work for free.
Examples
Multiple examples are provided in our example repository https://github.com/unidoc/unidoc-examples as well as documented examples on our website.
Contact us if you need any specific examples.
Contributing
All contributors must sign a contributor license agreement before their code will be reviewed and merged.
Support and consulting
Please email us at support@unidoc.io for any queries.
If you have any specific tasks that need to be done, we offer consulting in certain cases. Please contact us with a brief summary of what you need and we will get back to you with a quote, if appropriate.
Licensing Information
This library (unipdf) has a dual license, a commercial one suitable for closed source projects and an AGPL license that can be used in open source software.
Depending on your needs, you must choose one of them and follow its policies. A detail of the policies and agreements for each license type are available in the LICENSE.COMMERCIAL and LICENSE.AGPL files.
In brief, purchasing a license is mandatory as soon as you develop activities distributing the unipdf software inside your product or deploying it on a network without disclosing the source code of your own applications under the AGPL license. These activities include:
- offering services as an application service provider or over-network application programming interface (API)
- creating/manipulating documents for users in a web/server/cloud application
- shipping unipdf with a closed source product
Please see pricing to purchase a commercial license or contact sales at sales@unidoc.io for more info.
Getting Rid of the Watermark - Get a License
Out of the box - unipdf is unlicensed and outputs a watermark on all pages, perfect for prototyping. To use unipdf in your projects, you need to get a license.
Get your license on https://unidoc.io.
To load your license, simply do:
unidocLicenseKey := "... your license here ..."
err := license.SetLicenseKey(unidocLicenseKey)
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("Error loading license: %v\n", err)
os.Exit(1)
}