What is Nutrient SDK?
Nutrient offers a comprehensive suite of solutions tailored to meet all your PDF needs, providing tools that effortlessly handle PDF functionalities on any platform.
1. SDK: Integrate sophisticated PDF capabilities into iOS, Android, Windows, the web, or any cross-platform technology, offering features such as PDF viewing, annotation, collaboration, and much more.
2. Libraries: Use our robust .NET and Java libraries to empower your backend systems with capabilities for batch processing of redactions and PDF forms, OCR for scanned text, and editing of PDF documents, all directly from your application server.
3. Processor: Our nimble PDF microservice, Processor, facilitates the quick creation of PDFs from HTML, including HTML forms, alongside conversions from Office to PDF, OCR processing, redaction, and the combination and exporting of XFDF.
4. PDF API: Leverage our hosted PDF API to create, convert, and modify PDF documents within your workflows. We manage the development and server operations, allowing you to focus solely on growing your business.
At Nutrient, we see ourselves not merely as a tool but as a dedicated partner in your journey to success. You can easily reach out to our engineers for specialized support, access thorough examples to aid in integration, and utilize our premium documentation to maximize your experience. Additionally, we are committed to continuous improvement and innovation, ensuring our solutions evolve with your needs.
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Nutrient SDK Categories and Features
PDF SDK
The Nutrient PDF SDKs provide seamless functionality across a variety of platforms, including Web (JavaScript/WebAssembly), iOS, Android, .NET, Java, Node.js, Flutter, and React Native. These SDKs deliver native performance and a cohesive API experience. You can easily incorporate features such as document viewing, processing, and signing into your application using both native and cross-platform SDKs. Discover a range of functionalities, customize the user interface, and export operational code within moments. The APIs offer access to everything from ready-made UI elements to personalized renderers, annotation capabilities, and programmable document actions.
PDF Redaction Software
The Nutrient SDK integrates a permanent PDF redaction feature into your application, ensuring that sensitive information is completely eliminated rather than merely concealed under a black box that remains searchable or copyable. It is utilized by developers, compliance teams, and legal professionals to effectively eradicate personally identifiable information (PII) and confidential elements from contracts, court records, and board meeting materials prior to distribution or storage, thereby aiding in compliance with GDPR and HIPAA regulations. The redaction process permanently removes text, images, and vector graphics from designated areas. Users can mark content either manually or through precise text searches, regular expressions, and pre-defined patterns for identifying emails, phone numbers, and credit card data. The mark-then-apply method allows reviewers to evaluate each redaction before final removal, and offers options for customizable overlay text and fill colors. Redaction occurs client-side within both Web and mobile SDKs, ensuring files remain on the user's device, or can be executed via a self-hosted Document Engine for headless and batch processing scenarios.
PDF Readers
Incorporate sophisticated document handling, including viewing, annotations, form management, signing, and editing, seamlessly into any JavaScript framework. Utilize the pre-designed user interface, customize components using the slot system, or operate entirely headless — all features are accessible through code, suitable for both users and AI systems. Process documents client-side with WebAssembly, server-side, or in a cloud environment. Achieve precise rendering with rapid page streaming for extensive documents. Take advantage of over 17 types of annotations, the ability to create and fill forms, along with options for electronic and digital signatures.
PDF Generators
Nutrient SDK revolutionizes document creation for web, mobile, and server applications by streamlining the PDF generation process. This tool allows teams to eliminate the tedious task of manually crafting invoices, contracts, and statements. Developers, operational teams, and business process managers can effortlessly generate tailored documents either on-demand or through scheduled batches. The SDK utilizes DOCX templates that accommodate placeholders, repetitive rows, nested loops, and conditional content sourced from JSON data, ultimately producing output in either PDF or Word formats. Additionally, it supports the creation of documents from PDF templates, images, or HTML and CSS, which the Document Engine then transforms into well-structured, paginated PDFs. AcroForm fields can be populated from JSON or XFDF and flattened for storage, while multiple files can be combined into a single PDF. Document generation can occur directly in the browser without requiring a server, or through a headless server setup for automated workflows. Since the output is based on the team's custom templates, all documents remain consistent and aligned with the brand's identity with each generation.
PDF Editors
Nutrient SDK integrates PDF editing capabilities directly into your application, allowing users to modify the document itself rather than working on a separate copy, eliminating the need for tedious download-edit-upload cycles typical of desktop editors. This solution is particularly beneficial for developers and product managers looking to enhance workflows related to contracts, policies, proposals, compliance, and back-office tasks by incorporating in-app editing functionalities. The Content Editor empowers users to modify existing content, adjust font styles, sizes, and colors, add or remove paragraphs, as well as resize and reposition text blocks—all while ensuring that fonts are automatically matched and edits remain within the original file's structure. Meanwhile, the Document Editor manages the layout of pages, enabling users to reorder, rotate, delete, duplicate, insert, merge, and split pages through a user-friendly thumbnail interface or programmatically. Additionally, page operations can be executed server-side in a headless mode for efficient batch processing. This editing feature utilizes a unified API and document model that also accommodates annotation, redaction, and signing, facilitating a seamless transition from editing to redacting to signing—all within the same application environment.
PDF Converters
Nutrient SDK integrates seamless PDF conversion capabilities into your applications and workflows, ensuring the same document is available in various formats while maintaining its integrity—without requiring separate libraries for each format or the need for Microsoft Office. It caters to developers, backend engineers, and document pipeline designers, enabling them to effortlessly convert contracts and reports into PDFs, transform PDFs back into editable Office formats, change images into PDFs, and save documents as PDF/A for archiving purposes. The SDK is equipped to handle conversions from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to PDFs, as well as vice versa, while keeping the original layout, fonts, and tables intact. The Web SDK facilitates client-side conversion of Office documents, TIFF, JPG, and PNG files directly in the browser, eliminating the need for document uploads. For self-hosted, server-side batch conversions, the Document Engine provides a robust solution. Additionally, the .NET SDK supports the conversion of over 100 file formats to PDF, including HTML, emails, and CAD files. The PDF/A output produced is specifically designed to meet veraPDF validation standards for long-term document preservation.
PDF Annotators
The Nutrient SDK enhances in-app PDF annotation and markup for document evaluations, enabling users to annotate directly within the application rather than having to export files to an external review platform. It is utilized by developers, product managers, and document review teams for tasks such as contract and compliance assessments, board pack reviews, engineering blueprints, and approval processes. With over 15 compliant annotation options including highlights, underlines, strikethroughs, ink drawings, shapes, stamps, sticky notes, and free text, it ensures a consistent experience across web, mobile, and desktop environments. Users can attach threaded comments to annotations, which log the author and timestamp, and can be either resolved or reopened as needed. Access permissions dictate who can view, comment on, or modify annotations. Teams can also personalize colors, toolbars, and stamps, manage annotations via the API, and export data to XFDF for use with other PDF applications or Instant JSON for seamless synchronization across users and devices.
PDF APIs
Nutrient DWS offers a cloud-based suite of document APIs designed for seamless document management. This platform includes a Processor for executing headless document workflows such as generation, conversion, OCR, and redaction. It features Data Extraction capabilities to pull structured data from various documents, an AI Gateway that provides managed access to generative and decision-making models via adaptable APIs, and a Viewer for integrating document viewing and review functionalities within your application. Additionally, it includes Accessibility tools for PDF/UA tagging and validation, all while eliminating the need for infrastructure management.
PDF Software
OCR Software
Nutrient SDK provides optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities for transforming PDFs and images into searchable formats, enabling users to convert scanned documents into selectable text and organized data rather than a jumbled array of words. This tool is utilized by developers, data engineers, and automation specialists to catalog scanned documents for efficient searching and compliance purposes, as well as to digitize documents in various languages and extract information from invoices, contracts, forms, and identification cards. The OCR feature embeds a text layer while maintaining the original document's layout, with PDF/A format output to facilitate records management and enhance accessibility. For advanced structuring beyond mere text, the Data Extraction modules for Python and Java can identify handwriting, mathematical equations, reading sequences, and tables while delineating cell boundaries. The .NET SDK enhances functionality with zonal OCR, processes images for improvements like deskewing and noise reduction, detects orientation, provides confidence scoring, and supports over 100 languages. Both OCR and data extraction processes can be executed on your own servers, while mobile SDKs are capable of processing documents offline, ensuring that sensitive information remains secure within your organization.
Intelligent Document Processing Software
Nutrient serves as a robust document platform that empowers organizations to implement efficient agent-based systems designed for document-oriented workflows. It integrates a dependable document processing framework for agents, smart routing and oversight capabilities, along with user-friendly interfaces that involve human participation. Drawing from ten years of extensive experience in enterprise document management, Nutrient delivers innovative document workflow solutions to a diverse range of clients globally, supporting over 15 percent of the Global 500 companies, numerous commercial enterprises across 80 nations, and over 130 public sector institutions in 24 different countries.
Document Generation Software
Nutrient SDK streamlines the process of generating high-volume PDFs directly within your application: input your data, and receive completed documents in return, eliminating the need for manually crafted documents and fragile scripts. It is a valuable tool for developers, operations personnel, and business process managers, enabling the creation of invoices, contracts, quotes, statements, and reports, whether from a single document within the browser or in large-scale batches for scheduled tasks and backend processes. Teams can integrate JSON data into DOCX templates featuring placeholders, repeating rows, nested loops, and conditional content, or convert HTML and CSS into paginated PDFs, with the option to output to PDF or Word formats. Document generation can be executed client-side in the browser, server-side through the Document Engine, or through a cloud API, ensuring that sensitive information remains within the team's secure environment. The SDKs are available for JavaScript, .NET, Java, and Python. Since the output is generated from the team's customized templates, documents maintain brand consistency and coherence across every instance, even when the data is provided by AI.
Document Collaboration Software
Nutrient SDK offers a seamless way to collaborate on documents in real-time directly within your application. It allows multiple reviewers to work on a single document simultaneously, eliminating the need to create complex sync infrastructures or to use external collaboration platforms. This tool is particularly beneficial for developers, product managers, and UX engineers who need to incorporate multi-user reviews for various purposes such as contract evaluations, technical drawing annotations, field notes documentation, and team approval processes. Nutrient Instant operates through the Document Engine using WebSockets, facilitating the synchronization of annotations, comments, and form data across different users and devices on web, iOS, and Android platforms. The system supports threaded comments that can be anchored to specific areas or annotations and can be marked as resolved or reopened as needed. Role-based access, including viewer, commenter, and editor permissions, is managed with JWT tokens and can be modified during a session. Additionally, the Document Engine can be hosted on your own servers, ensuring that all documents and collaborative data remain within your infrastructure, while maintaining a unified document model for annotations, editing, and signing.
Data Extraction Software
The Nutrient Data Extraction API offers an innovative solution for transforming PDFs, scans, and Office documents into structured data, significantly reducing the need for manual oversight. It is utilized by AI/ML specialists and data engineers to convert entire document structures into either Markdown or spatial JSON format, suitable for various applications such as RAG pipelines, search indexing, question and answer systems, and knowledge repositories. Teams within sectors like finance, insurance, lending, legal, and healthcare leverage this tool to extract predefined fields from various documents including invoices, contracts, claims, forms, and financial statements. Users have the option to provide their own JSON Schema, ensuring that the resulting JSON is compliant and includes confidence scores for each field, alongside contextual information such as bounding boxes. This enables teams to verify data accuracy and manage any questionable entries for further examination. The API features four distinct processing modes—Text, Structure, Understand, and Agentic—integrating OCR, ICR, computer vision, and VLM-enhanced ICR technologies to handle both digital files and scanned documents with intricate layouts and handwritten content. The pricing is based on credits per page, eliminating the need for token-based charges.
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Excellent SDK
Date: Apr 08 2025SummaryThe overall experience is positive, the technical support is also excellent, always available and punctual in providing support.
PositiveGreat SDK for viewing and editing PDFs. Also very interesting are the Office file viewing features, with client side conversion. Lots of possibilities to customize both style and functionality.
NegativePerformance on large files (over 50 MB) could be improved.
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Very complete and developer oriented
Date: May 02 2025SummaryGood product compared to other market solutions. Startup time is short to build a POC and easy to adapt to project's needs.
PositiveGood support, good features and easy to customize. The documentation is complete enough. Online demo is useful.
NegativeHeavy distribution, needs strong competencies to optimize
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Disable responsiveness of ToolBar-Items completely
Date: Mar 13 2024SummaryWhenever I needed assistance, I got it. In Time!
PositiveFast, complete and pointing to the right solution.
NegativeThis time none :-)
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Regarding old license key
Date: Aug 22 2024SummaryIt was great experience and support much happy than expected.
PSPDFKit is very useful library for front end.PositiveQuick support provided by Omar Talaat and noe it's working perfectly.
Many many thanks Omar for currently it's smoothly working for all config.NegativeNothing and keep it same kind of support :) and your support are very important for us to rectify this issue.
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Implementation
Date: Jul 24 2024SummaryWorking with the people from PSPDFKit was a good experience. They are friendly and mean to help. They have a good product which gets updated often.
PositiveGood application with a great support team. The product is stable without many error, bugs or downtime. The support team is one of the friendliest I have experienced. They also keep PSPDFKit updated with the newest technologies.
NegativeI somewhat miss documentation. The ticket I had about implementing annotations could've been avoided by having more community supported articles and more defining documentation. Don't get me wrong, they already have quite the documentation. But the solution that I was looking for wasn't found without a dev on their side.
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Easy to use
Date: Jul 17 2024SummaryI would recommend. I had a great experience working PSPDFKit. They provided workarounds when something was not 100% doable.
PositiveIt is very easy to use. Everything you need can be easily found in the documentation. Also the support team is very responsive and always happy to help with any problems.
NegativeSometimes it can have limited functionality and limited customization.
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PSPDFKit team helped a lot with various questions related to document caching on iOS and Windows platforms
Date: Mar 27 2024SummaryMany thanks to PSPDFKit team for their assistance in various questions mentioned above.
This helped save time on finding a solution to the problem and achieve the desired result.PositivePSPDFKit team, quickly, qualitatively and excellently helped with various questions related to document caching on iOS and Windows platforms.
NegativeWe couldn't find any cons, since the PSPDFKit team did their job well.
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No other choice
Date: Jan 25 2024SummaryThere is not much choice in the field for PDF viewer and redaction. This is the best one. There are some free open sources being contributed but they are not very stable or not enough features.
Positive- UI and UX look clean and friendly.
- Execution fast enough considering number of features.
- Most complete web PDF features on marketNegative- With only base features of PDF viewer, its already pricy. Should have been lower price so it will be much easier for small companies developer folks to convince their upper management for budget approval. Or include all features such as annotation and redact.
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- Have not try all but per documentation, there are not enough types of event. When I need to know when the viewing document is printed or downloaded I must use custom toolbar button.
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Fantastic product
Date: May 18 2024SummaryPSPDFKit is fanatical about handling PDF. I first heard about them over a decade ago as an ios pdf renderer library, and when I needed a solution to work with PDFs, I immediately remembered them, discovering they'd created a whole suite of products since then to work with PDF.
At my company, we build accounting software and we've adopted their product for generating PDFs.
I've always considered PDF as a frightening nebulous proprietary standard that has no proper cross-platform tooling, so I gladly settled for mediocre exports of documents with botched layouts and fonts, but not anymore. We can now create PDF documents exactly the way we want them to look like.
As a customer, I'm hopeful for a long productive partnership.PositiveGreat and easy to follow API, helpful guides and examples.
I mostly deal with server side and had no problems with deploying it all on premises. I found their app/browser-based editing/working with PDF examples much much much better. Demos are top-notch and give you immediate picture of what you can do.NegativeLicensing seemed a bit confusing to me which is understandable for such a suite, but it's drastically improving now that they are consolidating their products into Document Engine, etc.
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Great Product
Date: Sep 14 2023SummaryWe used PSPDFKit for a custom application for one of our customers. they were very happy with the features of the product.
PositiveWe like the ease of use, features, ability to customize, and support provided with PSPDFKit. Overall, the product has worked very well for us.
NegativeWe did not have any major issues with PSPDFKit. Anything we discovered, support was able to help us find a solution.
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Amazing software and wonderful team!!!
Date: Aug 17 2023SummaryPSPDFKit is a great PDF rendition engine and very quick to setup and integrate.
Amazing sales and tech support team.Positive1. The best PDF rendition engine
2. Very easy to setup and integrate
3. Highly customizable
4. Great technical support
5. Pricing models are great
6. Very friendly sales team.NegativeNo cons.
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Great Product and People!
Date: Jul 27 2023SummaryIt's great! We needed a tool to provide collaborative live editing of PDFs inside our Rails application and store the data in S3. This works great.
Everyone we've worked with over there has been great!PositiveEasiest way to support collaborative live editing of PDFs!
Great people! They'll even treat small customers well!NegativeThere are no cons.
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Excellent PDF Software
Date: Aug 17 2023SummaryGreat tool, we've been using it for 6 years plus. PSPDFKit has always been a strong partner for us and we appreciate the effort they make to improve their feature sets every quarter.
PositiveComprehensive SDKs for iOS, Android and Web (we use them all).
Powerful PDF Annotation Tools.
Customer service.NegativeNothing worth mentioning. We think its a great tool.
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Comprehensive and Customized PDF Solution
Updated: Jun 23 2023SummaryThe overall experience with PSPDFKit has been truly exceptional, and I cannot emphasize it enough. The sales and support team has consistently gone above and beyond to assist us, offering solutions that perfectly fit our specific use cases. Their prompt and extensive support has been invaluable, ensuring a seamless and personalized experience.
PositiveThis product surpasses expectations with its excellence. It provides us with the ability to customize features according to our specific needs, enabling us to concentrate on other aspects of our product implementation. The sales team has been exceptional, dedicating their time to assist us in setting up precisely what is required. The product offers a comprehensive range of features that are simple to set up and use. It is a highly flexible and powerful tool, offering a substantial level of customization and a multitude of functionalities. The documentation is clear and accompanied by reliable technical support, further enhancing the overall experience.
NegativeWhile some products may not offer a monthly plan, PSPDFKit stands out by delivering exceptional service through their sales team. Their commitment to customization ensures that the product is tailored to meet our specific needs. This aspect alone is highly advantageous and appreciated. Therefore, we consider all aspects of PSPDFKit to be pros. Thank you, PSPDFKit, for your outstanding service.
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Great PDF SDK
Date: Jun 23 2023SummaryWe have been using PSPDFKit for web and mobile for Years now. We don't use the server but just use the mobile and web SDK for file editing.
This always worked like a charm.
We always had very good experiences regarding their customer support/account management.Positive- Easy to use SDK
- Powerful features providing a great end user experience
- Highly customizable
- Very robustNegative- Nothing major to point out at the time of writing
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Excellent PDF Compression
Date: Sep 15 2023SummaryExcellent. The pre-sales engineering support was outstanding. They put together a proof-of-concept for us to test the compression, and we were able to integrate that into our application with very little effort. The team was easy to work with, and the post-sale customer support has been proactive.
PositiveThis is the only PDF manipulation library we found that is able to consolidate multiple copies of the same embedded font, and it does so very quickly. In our application, we create many separate PDFs, each with embedded fonts, then we merge those into a final PDF. Using this library, we're able to reduce the final document by over 60% (in one test case, from 3.4MB to 1.2MB.)
NegativeThe only negative is the licensing model. The library is broken up into a number of modules that are separately priced on a per-document basis. This means that you only pay for the features you need, but you need to do a good up-front analysis to avoid multiple trips back to the well to add modules you didn't know you needed at the start.
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Comprehensive and customised solution
Date: Apr 24 2023SummaryA quite comprehensive solution from a company with many years of experience in the industry. New features are coming due to the evolution of software and M&A.
PositiveA comprehensive set of features.
High level of customisation.
Multi-platform support.
Support extra formats.NegativeSupport to migrate from one release to another is rather poor.
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Poor support for previous releases.
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PSPDFKit SDK
Date: Jun 22 2023SummaryWe transitioned from another vendors solution to the PSPDFKit SDK after reviewing several products. The PSPDFKit solution offered an easy to use solution that supported current frameworks flawlessly. Additionally, we've had fewer issues with file format compatibility with other integrated systems since making the switch.
PositiveEasy to use SDK with robust feature set for imaging use. Great compatibility with other systems and file formats.
NegativeNo issues identified at this point in time. Over the past 12-18 months our experience has been excellent.
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PSPDFKit as a key service within BrandCloud
Date: Jun 28 2023SummaryStable product our customers likes.
Clean interface.
Easy to use.
All tools needed for handling PDF files, including annotations.PositiveSimple implementation, no struggles for our dev team.
Personal support.
Constant development, bunch of new features every quarter.NegativeWe haven't experienced any cons recently. 3 years ago there was some minor issues and they have been solved immediately.
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Very mature product and great technical support
Date: Mar 28 2023SummaryWe’ve evaluated multiple product and chose to work with PSPDFKIT for the reasons mentioned above. We recommend it to everyone considering a robust and versatile digital signing SDK.
PositiveMature product.
Good integration options.
Detailed documentation.
Timely and appropriate support.
Good value for money.
Flexible licensing model.NegativeNothing comes to mind at the moment. Maybe pricing could be made a bit more transparent on the website.
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