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The MuPDF Source Code
The foundation of everything we build, written in C. MuPDF’s C library is fast, lightweight, and portable. It powers high-performance PDF rendering, extraction, conversion, redaction, signing and more. Built for full control and maximum efficiency.
What makes MuPDF Core different?
High-Performance Applications
At its smallest, just 2MB, MuPDF will never weigh your project down. Our library can be built in different configurations, depending on your needs. And our continuous benchmark testing ensures the highest quality performance.
High-Fidelity Rendering
MuPDF renders text with metrics and spacing accurate to within fractions of a pixel, delivering the highest possible fidelity for reproducing the look of a printed page on a screen.
Multi-Format Support & Language Bindings
Supports multiple document formats including PDF, XPS, EPUB, SVG, and more. Built in C for maximum performance, with bindings for JavaScript, .NET, Python, and Java.
Command Line Tools with mutool
The command line tools gives users access to many of the commonly used and useful commands for rendering, converting and manipulation.
If you can imagine it, mutool run can handle it. The mutool run command executes a JavaScript program which has access to the complete MuPDF library. Mutool run scripts have access to the same classes and methods as the Java bindings, so if you are familiar with one, you can easily pick up the other.
mutool extractExtract images and embedded font resources from PDF files. This is useful when you want to reuse images or fonts embedded into PDFs elsewhere, or when trying to understand why a PDF is not rendered as expected.
mutool traceThis is a debugging tool used for showing a trace of the calls done to a graphics device when rendering a document. This can help interfacing a custom output graphics device with MuPDF or when trying to understand why a PDF is not rendered as expected.
mutool showA tool for displaying the internal objects in a PDF file. Together with the PDF specification this debugging tool can aid in understanding problematic PDF files that are not rendered as expected.
mutool cleanA workhorse of a tool that can rewrite the syntax of a PDF file, repair broken files, expand compressed streams, filter out a range of pages, or make a PDF file editable, and more!
mutool createThe create command creates a new PDF file with the contents created from one or more input files containing graphics commands.
mutool convertAn easy to use tool for converting documents from one format to another.
mutool mergeMerge pages from multiple files into a new PDF document.
mutool drawA highly customizable tool that renders documents to image files, converts to other vector formats, or extracts text content.
mutool posterTile a large PDF page into several smaller pages, to allow you to print large posters on a regular printer.
mutool signReads an input PDF file and by default prints information about each signature field object.
mutool infoShow info about the objects on pages in an input file. For each page the page object number is shown, and then detailed information about the desired objects.
MuPDF Core Resources
Quick Start Guide
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