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ComPDF

Developer-oriented document processing SDKs and cloud APIs for PDF viewing, editing, PDF/A

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ComPDF is a document processing platform for developers and enterprises, covering viewing, editing, generating, converting, parsing, and extracting data from PDFs and other documents. It combines SDKs, cloud APIs, and AI-powered document intelligence to build document features into apps and systems or to automate workflows with little or no code.

The product line includes ComPDF SDK for Web, Server (Java, .NET, C++, PHP, Python), Mobile (Android, iOS, Flutter, React Native), and Desktop (Mac, Windows); ComPDF Cloud with Open API and self-hosted deployment; and ComPDF AI with AI Document Parsing, AI Document Extraction, and DocSlight for end-to-end workflow automation. Capabilities include PDF generation from HTML and structured data, a customizable PDF viewer and editor, conversion between PDF, Office, image, and text formats, page editing, security tools, compression, and document comparison. Intelligent tools cover text, table, image, and stamp extraction, plus image enhancement and distortion correction. Integrations span Salesforce, SharePoint, AWS, Make, Zapier, n8n, GitHub, npm, pub.dev, and MCP servers for AI models.

Packaging includes a free portal sign-up with monthly API calls, a 30-day free trial with full feature access, and an open-source DocSlight-Lite option. Licensing models are offered per feature, platform or framework, API call, server, document page, or duration-based plan.

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