Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base.
What's with the name?
Discuss poppler on the poppler
mailing list, or visit the #poppler irc channel on
irc.freenode.org.
The latest stable release is poppler-0.75.0.tar.xz,
released on Mar 21, 2019:
Release 0.75.0:
core:
* Fix rendering of some annotations
* Fix crashes in broken files
* Small internal code improvements
cpp:
* Improve documentation
* tests: Add showing version information to poppler-dump
utils:
* pdfattach: new util
* pdftohtml: add -dataurls parameter
* pdftoppm: add -sep and -forcenum parameters
* pdftohtml: make singleHtml and stout not mutually exclusive
* pdfsig: fix use after free
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.
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.
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.
Poppler Wiki.
Check out the bugs filed against poppler and the issues found by oss-fuzz.
Use giltab 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.
