PdfPig VS PDFsharp

Compare PdfPig vs PDFsharp and see what are their differences.

PDFsharp

PDFsharp and MigraDoc Foundation for .NET 6 and .NET Framework (by empira)
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PdfPig PDFsharp
7 2
1,430 297
4.7% 16.8%
9.0 4.5
5 days ago 7 days ago
C# C#
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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PdfPig

Posts with mentions or reviews of PdfPig. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-30.
  • Just Say No
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Nov 2022
    Maybe (most likely) this is a problem of GitHub's terminology. For genuine bugs, e.g. here's the repro, the stack trace, the code to replicate it, it happens 100% of the time if you follow these steps, I'd agree that just having it open and in the backlog would be preferable.

    The problem is those make up maybe at a generous estimate, 10-15% of issues in a projects backlog. In the interests of full disclosure here's mine (I don't use stalebot) https://github.com/UglyToad/PdfPig/issues?page=1&q=is%3Aissu.... As you can see from the backlog I close almost nothing. This was a deliberate choice to avoid closing things until the fix was confirmed by the reporter.

    But equally that's the first time I've opened the repository in a couple of months and the amount of angst and dread I feel just from the size of that list means I'll probably find yet another excuse not to do anything on it this coming month.

    Discussions on this topic feel a lot like "technical solutions to social problems"; by which I mean "well in the ideal world a perfectly logical person would do x, y, z so the system should reflect that". And while a stalebot is the archetypal technical solution to a social problem it at least works with how maintainers work. Sometimes in life you want to ignore a problem and have it go away. When you can't do that, e.g. government bureaucracy, work stuff, social obligations, that's where stress comes from. And asking volunteer maintainers to add a whole new source of stress in their life falls apart when people get busy, or their life circumstances change, or they get ill or tired or whatever.

    Yes, in a perfect world the issue backlog would be sacrosanct and perfectly groomed/prioritized. But we're just fleshy sacks of chemicals and we're not perfect. Unrealistic expectations from users are the cause of maintainer burnout.

    Because GitHub closed issues are still viewable and searchable (I'd guess most people search it through a search engine not the terrible inbuilt search) I'd disagree that they're deceiving users somehow.

  • There is framework for everything.
    107 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 4 Aug 2022
    What about PdfPig? It's under Apache 2.0.
  • How to read pdf files in C#?
    2 projects | /r/csharp | 2 Dec 2021
    PDF Pig is open source and allows you to read text and even extract images.
  • Add, Remove, Extract and Replace Images in PDF using C#
    2 projects | /r/dotnet | 23 Aug 2021
    https://uglytoad.github.io/PdfPig/ https://github.com/empira/PDFsharp
  • Are there any good PDF generation libraries with no paid licensing?
    2 projects | /r/dotnet | 15 Mar 2021
    Example of document creation API here https://github.com/UglyToad/PdfPig#document-creation-005 and wiki with more details here https://github.com/UglyToad/PdfPig/wiki/Document-Creation

PDFsharp

Posts with mentions or reviews of PDFsharp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-31.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PdfPig and PDFsharp you can also consider the following projects:

itext-dotnet - iText for .NET is the .NET version of the iText library, formerly known as iTextSharp, which it replaces. iText represents the next level of SDKs for developers that want to take advantage of the benefits PDF can bring. Equipped with a better document engine, high and low-level programming capabilities and the ability to create, edit and enha

ITextSharp - [DEPRECATED] .NET port of the iText library, only security fixes will be added — please use iText for .NET

Docotic.Pdf - Docotic.Pdf library can create, edit, draw and print PDF files in .NET Core, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WPF, Xamarin, Blazor, Unity, and HoloLense applications. The library is a 100% managed assembly without unsafe blocks. The assembly has no external dependencies.

library - QuestPDF is an open-source, modern and battle-tested library that can help you with generating PDF documents by offering friendly, discoverable and predictable C# fluent API.

docnet - DocNET is as fast PDF editing and reading library for modern .NET applications

Pdfium.Net SDK

iTextSharp (LGPL / MPL) 4.1.6 for .NET Core - Unofficial .NET Core port of iTextSharp 4.1.6. Last version to be released under the Mozilla Public License and the LGPL.

scryber.core - Scryber.Core is a dotnet html to pdf engine written entirely in C# for creating beautiful flexible, flowing documents from html templates including css styles, data binding, svg drawing and encryption

PdfiumViewer

boxable - Boxable is a library that can be used to easily create tables in pdf documents.

Gehtsoft.Barcodes - The cross-platform C# library to easily generate barcodes, including QR codes. The library allows application developers to add a variety of standard barcodes and QR codes using convenient API.