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Artifex Software builds open-source and commercially licensed document processing technology, including Ghostscript (a PostScript/PDF interpreter), MuPDF (a lightweight PDF SDK), PyMuPDF (Python bindings for PDF processing), and PyMuPDF4LLM (PDF-to-Markdown extraction). The company also offers SaaS APIs, PDF.co for low-code PDF automation and DocRaptor for HTML-to-PDF conversion. Its open-source projects are AGPL-licensed, with commercial licensing available for proprietary use.

What it's for

PDF text and table extractionBuilding RAG and LLM pipelines from documentsPDF rendering for viewers, printers, and appsPostScript/PDF interpretation and conversionOffice document (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HWP) processingHTML-to-PDF conversionLow-code PDF automation via REST APIEmbedding PDF viewing in browser/Node.js appsDocument management for enterprise content systemsMobile PDF rendering and manipulation

Features 15

  • .NET binding for Ghostscript (Ghostscript.NET)
  • .NET binding for MuPDF distributed via NuGet (MuPDF.NET)
  • Commercial Ghostscript Enterprise edition that processes Microsoft Office documents
  • Coordinated security vulnerability disclosure program
  • CPU-only AI layout analysis using a Graph Neural Network on PDF structure
  • Embeddable browser-based PDF viewer (MuPDF WebViewer)
  • HTML-to-PDF conversion API powered by the Prince rendering engine (DocRaptor)
  • JavaScript binding for browser and Node.js environments (MuPDF.js)
  • Lightweight core PDF rendering and manipulation SDK in C/C++ (MuPDF)
  • Low-code REST API for PDF conversion, editing, extraction, and parsing (PDF.co)
  • Microsoft Office and Hangul (HWP/HWPX) format support (PyMuPDF Pro)
  • PDF reading, extraction, and manipulation in Python (PyMuPDF)
  • PDF-to-Markdown/JSON/text extraction for LLM and RAG pipelines (PyMuPDF4LLM)
  • PDF2DOCX Python library for converting PDFs to DOCX
  • PostScript and PDF interpreter with rendering engine and graphics library (Ghostscript)

At a glance

open sourceself-hostableAPI
TypeLibrary / SDK
DeploymentHybrid
PlatformsWeb
Fordevelopers, businesses
CompanyArtifex Software Inc. · 1989

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Pricing

Pricing is not publicly listed. Open-source versions are available for free under AGPL; commercial licensing requires contacting sales.

Last checked 28 days ago·