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Apryse’s PDF Library ships with a simple to use API to bring accurate, reliable, and fast document reading, writing, editing, printing, and display capabilities to commercial applications.

Apryse’s fully supported PDF SDK is trusted by thousands of innovative startups, governments, and Fortune 500 businesses (see customers). Apryse technology is built from the ground up and is not dependent on any external third-party open-source software.

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File type support

Web

Mobile

Desktop / server

PDF

FormatClient onlyWebViewer ServerCustom Server
PDF (1.x to 2.0)
PDF/A 1,2,3
XFDF
FDF

Office

Requires Office & Templating Add-on

FormatClient onlyWebViewer ServerCustom Server
DOC, DOCX, DOCM
DOT, DOTX, DOTM
XLS, XLSX, XLSM
XLSB
XLT
XLTX
XLTM
PPT, PPTX, PPTM
POT
POTX, POTM
PPS
PPSX, PPSM
VSD
VSDX
PUBWindows + Office*

* Custom Server PUB are only supported via Office Interop (MS Office instance needs to be installed)

CAD

Requires Architecture, Engineering & Construction Add-on

FormatClient onlyWebViewer ServerCustom Server
DWG
DWF
DXF
DGN
RVT✓*✓*

* RVT is only supported on Windows

Images

FormatClient onlyWebViewer ServerCustom Server
JPG
PNG
JFIF
TIF✓*

* See here for how to view tiff files on the client side

Requires WebViewer Server

FormatClient onlyWebViewer ServerCustom Server
SVG
BMP
WMF
EMF
GIF
JP2, JPC

Requires WebViewer Server & Media Add-on

FormatClient onlyWebViewer ServerCustom Server
AAI✓*✓*
ARW✓*✓*
CR2✓*✓*
CRW✓*✓*
CUR, ICO✓*✓*
DCM✓*✓*
DCR✓*✓*
DDS✓*✓*
HEIC, HEIF✓*✓*
MRW✓*✓*
NEF✓*✓*
ORF✓*✓*
PICT✓*✓*
PFM✓*✓*
PSB, PSD✓*✓*
RAF✓*✓*

* Using the Apryse Advanced imaging module

Video

Requires Media Add-on

FormatClient onlyWebViewer ServerCustom Server
MP4
OGG
WEBM

* Video formats are supported via separate WebViewer Video build

Audio

Requires Media Add-on

FormatClient onlyWebViewer ServerCustom Server
MP3
WAV
OGG
FLAC

* Audio formats are supported via separate WebViewer Audio build

Other

Requires Convert Add-on

FormatClient onlyWebViewer ServerCustom Server
RTFWindows Only
ODTWindows Only
ODSWindows Only
ODPWindows Only
HTML
MSGWindows + Office*
EML✓^
TXT
CSV
XPS
XOD**
XAMLUsing .NET

* MSG conversion is only supported on Windows via MS Office installation and Office Interop

^ EML requires conversion using third party tools. See our Github example of EML conversion with third party tools

** XOD is available on all platforms but viewing encrypted XOD is only supported for Web

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