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-0.59.0.tar.xz, released on September 3, 2017:

        core:
         * Fix infinite recursion in NameTree parsing in broken files

        utils:
         * pdfunite: Fix API porting error that caused abort in some cases
         * pdfinfo: Fix crashes and memory leaks when using -dests
         * pdfinfo: use GooString.append instead of sprintf/strcat
         * pdfimages: Fix warning when compiling with cygwin

        build system:
         * Fix cygwin 32-bit compile
         * cmake tweaks

Besides poppler you are also going to need poppler encoding data: poppler-data-0.4.8.tar.gz, released on August 13, 2017.

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 the repository with cgit. Please send patches via Bugzilla.

Documentation

Poppler comes with multiple frontends (APIs): cpp, glib, qt4 and qt5. Following is a list of already generated documentation, it may or may not be up to date. You can always generate an updated one from the source code.

• cpp: http://marpirk.github.io/poppler-cpp-doc
• glib: http://people.freedesktop.org/~ajohnson/docs/poppler-glib/
• qt4: http://people.freedesktop.org/~aacid/docs/qt4/
• qt5: http://people.freedesktop.org/~aacid/docs/qt5/

Wiki

Poppler Wiki.

TODO

Check out the bugs filed against poppler.

Bugzilla

Use bugzilla to report bugs, suggest enhancements or send patches. The component is poppler.

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

Packaged Versions

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

poppler

poppler-data