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.libera.chat, which is also bridged to Matrix.
The latest stable release is poppler-26.11.0.tar.xz,
released on November 5, 2026:
core:
* Fix subsetting annotations with multiline content
* NSS: Fix crash if creating the hash context fails
* Fix crash when saving documents with special forms
* Properly apply password length limit
* Annot: Fix the text width of widgets rotated 180 degrees
* FlateStream::rewind: Don't consider the empty stream failing when reviwnding it
* TextStringToUtf8: Fix PDFDocEncoding conversion
* Internal code improvements
* Fix crashes in malformed documents
utils:
* Increase max password length
* pdfsig: Allow to give multiple nss passwords
* pdfsig: Allow to input the password interactively
qt6:
* Expose the asset of RichMedia instances
* Fix leak of RichMedia activation and deactivation
* Check that Catalog::getForm() returns a Form before using it
qt5:
* Check that Catalog::getForm() returns a Form before using it
* Fix leak of RichMedia activation and deactivation
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-0.4.12.tar.gz, released on February 1, 2023.
Previous poppler releases are available here.
Poppler is developed using git. To clone the repository use the following command:
git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/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, qt5 and qt6. 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 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.
We run continuous integration via the gitlab CI on:
There are a few non official CI too:
