Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base.

What's with the name?

Contact

Discuss poppler on the poppler mailing list, or visit the #poppler irc channel on irc.freenode.org.

Download

The latest stable release is poppler-0.87.0.tar.xz, released on March 28, 2020:

Release 0.87.0:
        core:
         * Fix leak in broken files
         * Internal code improvements

        qt5:
         * Add option to get form choice for export value
         * ArthurOutputDev: Avoid division by zero in updateLineDash. Issue #695

        glib:
         * Internal code improvements

         utils:
         * pdftohtml: Fix memory leak in HtmlOutputDev::getLinkDest

The tarball has been signed (.sig file) by Albert Astals Cid CA262C6C83DE4D2FB28A332A3A6A4DB839EAA6D7.

Besides poppler you are also going to need poppler encoding data: poppler-data-0.4.9.tar.gz, released on April 24, 2018.

Previous poppler releases are available here.

Git

Poppler is developed using git. To clone the repository use the following command:

git clone https://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/poppler.git

or browse (via cgit) (via gitlab) the repository. Please send patches via gitlab merge requests.

Documentation

Poppler comes with multiple frontends (APIs): cpp, glib and qt5. Following is a list of already generated documentation. You can always generate up to date documentation from the source code.

• cpp: https://poppler.freedesktop.org/api/cpp/
• glib: https://poppler.freedesktop.org/api/glib/
• qt5: https://poppler.freedesktop.org/api/qt5/

Wiki

Poppler Wiki.

TODO

Check out the bugs filed against poppler and the issues found by oss-fuzz.

Bugs

Use gitlab to report bugs or suggest enhancements.

If you have documents that don't render properly with poppler, please open a bug and attach the PDF file there, if possible.

Continuous Integration

We run continuous integration via the gitlab CI on:

• Debian Unstable (gcc and clang)
• Ubuntu 16.04 (gcc)
• Fedora (mingw and clazy)
• android (via kdeorg/android-sdk docker)

There are a few non official CI too:

• FreeBSD 11.2: https://cirrus-ci.com/github/tsdgeos/poppler_mirror
• OSX: https://travis-ci.org/tsdgeos/poppler_mirror
• Windows: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/tsdgeos/poppler-mirror
• buildbot: https://popplerbot.igalia.com/builders/runtests

Packaged Versions

This is a non-complete list of packaged versions of poppler and poppler-data.

poppler

poppler-data