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# Guides for UWP PDF SDK

Build powerful UWP apps with Apryse's PDF library for UWP. View, edit, and annotate PDFs and Office files cross-platform. Trusted by startups to Fortune 500 companies. Try a free trial now! The Apryse

Apryse' PDF library for UWP is a comprehensive cross-platform PDF and Office SDK that allows you to write stand-alone, cross-platform and reliable commercial applications. Using Apryse's UWP SDK, you can build powerful UWP apps that can view, edit, and annotate PDF, Microsoft Office, and other file formats.

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

<a href="/uwp/get-started/get-started.md" class="button primary">Get started</a><a href="/uwp/get-started/samples.md" class="button primary">Samples</a><a href="/core/get-started/download.md" class="button primary">Download</a>

## New to Apryse UWP SDK?

After you checked out the samples, gone through get started, here are some next steps.

[Basics operations](/uwp/basic-operations/basics.md) Basic operations include saving, loading, or multithreaded locking of a document.

[Viewer](/uwp/viewer/viewer.md) Display a document reliably and accurately.

[UI Customization](/uwp/ui-customization/ui-customization.md) Show/hide buttons, remove menus or customize interactions.

[Annotation](/uwp/guides/features/annotation.md) Markup and comment on documents without changing the documents original content.

## Add more functionality

[Conversion](/uwp/guides/features/conversion.md) Convert multiple file types to PDF or from PDF to multiple file types.

[Extraction](/uwp/extraction/extraction.md) Extract data such as text, images, fonts, metadata, and more from a document.

[Search](/uwp/search/search.md) Find text within the contents of a document.

## Specialized topics

[Digital Signature](/uwp/digital-signature/signature.md) Secure a document with a signing fingerprint between sender and receiver.

[Redaction](/uwp/redaction/redaction.md) Redact information from a document.

[PDF/A](/uwp/pdf-a/pdfa.md) Convert generic PDFs to PDF/A or validate existing PDF/A documents.

## Customizable

* UI source code access for fine grained control over UX
* Create custom annotations
* Change annotation appearance or behavior
* Localization
* Rich set of APIs for more advanced customization

## Framework Integration Support

* [Xamarin.Forms](/xamarin/get-started/forms.md)

## File Type Support

* PDF, PDF/A
* DOC, DOCX, XLSX, XLS, PPTX, PPT (MS Office software or licenses are **not** required)
* JPG, BMP, TIF, PNG, SVG, EMF, GIF, JP2, JPC
* XPS

## OS Support

* Windows 10 Build 10240 and above

## Free Trial

* There are no feature limitations during the trial
* [Sign-up](https://dev.apryse.com) to get your trial key
* Chat with us on [Discord](https://apryse.com/discord?docLink=freDis)


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