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sgcPDF. Pure Pascal PDF. No DLL to deploy.

Create, edit, view, render, extract, encrypt, sign, redact and validate PDF files with components written entirely in Object Pascal. The parser, writer, fonts, image decoders, renderers and cryptography are compiled into your application, with source code included.

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VCL
FireMonkey
.NET
Linux, macOS, mobile
Delphi 7 to 13
C++ Builder

The sgcPDF VCL viewer control showing a three page sales report with page thumbnails, zoom, search, printing and annotation tools

19palette components: document, editor, viewers, extractors, signing
0DLLs to deploy: parser, renderer, fonts and crypto in Pascal
5operating systems: Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android
8PDF/A conformance levels, plus PDF/UA-1 and PDF/UA-2

One library for every step of a PDF.

From the first page you write to the signed, archived and redacted file you hand over, every step runs in the same Object Pascal code base.

Nothing to install
No PDFium, Ghostscript or COM server. Your executable is the whole deployment.
Runs where your code runs
The core units have no VCL or FMX dependency: console tools, services, Linux daemons, web servers.
Secure and sign
AES-256 encryption, signatures with visible fields, PAdES through sgcSign and true redaction.
Archive and comply
PDF/A-1, 2, 3 and 4 with a validator, tagged PDF, PDF/UA-1 and PDF/UA-2, and Factur-X invoices.

See it work.

Captured from the sgcPDF demos and the sgcUI suite demo.

An HTML page with CSS on the left and the paginated PDF that TsgcPDFHTMLRenderer produced from it on the right

Create

Documents from code, HTML or a canvas.

TsgcPDFDocument writes pages, text, images, vector graphics, tables that flow across pages, barcodes and QR codes.
TrueType and OpenType fonts are embedded and subset automatically, so the text can be copied and searched.
TsgcPDFHTMLRenderer turns HTML with CSS into paginated PDF, TsgcPDFCanvas and EMF playback convert existing drawing code.

View and render

A viewer in your application, a renderer on your server.

TsgcPDFViewerControl scrolls, zooms, searches with highlight, selects text, fills form fields and prints.
TsgcPDFViewerFMX draws through the FireMonkey canvas on Windows, macOS, iOS and Android, with marquee zoom.
In .NET, the viewer controls run in WinForms, WPF and Avalonia.
TsgcPDFRendererRaster renders pages to PNG in pure Pascal, with no GDI, on Windows and Linux.

An invoice before and after TsgcPDFRedactor: the customer name and address are removed and marked REDACTED

Secure and sign

Encrypt, sign and redact for real.

RC4, AES-128 and AES-256 password encryption, and certificate encryption.
Digital signatures with visible fields and timestamps, plus PAdES B-B to B-LTA through the optional sgcSign bridge.
TsgcPDFRedactor removes text at glyph level, image pixels and paths, so the removed text cannot be extracted.

A tagged, accessible PDF next to the PDFTagged demo output, where TsgcPDFAValidator reports that validation passed

Comply

Files that pass archive and accessibility checks.

PDF/A-1, PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3 output at levels a and b, and PDF/A-4 and PDF/A-4f, checked by TsgcPDFAValidator.
Tagged PDF with a structure tree and alternate text, and PDF/UA-1 and PDF/UA-2 output with checks in the validator.
Factur-X, ZUGFeRD and XRechnung e-invoice embedding as PDF/A-3 attachments.

More from sgcPDF.

Text extraction, fillable forms, complex scripts and server rendering, straight from the demos.

An invoice PDF next to the plain text that ExtractTextW returned for its first page — Plain text per page or for the whole document, or text fragments with coordinates, font and size.

A service request form with text fields and check boxes, filled in the sgcPDF viewer — Text fields, check boxes, radio buttons and lists: fill them in code or in the viewer, then flatten.

One PDF page with Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi and Chinese text — Kerning, ligatures, Arabic joining forms and right to left text, plus CJK through embedded fonts.

Two catalogue pages rendered to PNG at 144 DPI by the raster renderer — `TsgcPDFRendererRaster` turns each page into a PNG at the DPI you choose, without GDI.

A PDF in a few lines.

Add a page, draw text and lines in PDF points, save. The same class names in Delphi, C++ Builder and the fully managed C# port.

dotnet add package esegece.sgcPDF

C++ Builder and C# versions

procedure CreateHelloPDF(const AFileName: string);
var
  oPDF: TsgcPDFDocument;
  oPage: TsgcPDFPage;
begin
  oPDF := TsgcPDFDocument.Create;
  try
    oPDF.Info.Title := 'Hello sgcPDF';
    // A4 portrait: 595 x 842 points, origin at the bottom left corner
    oPage := oPDF.AddPage(595, 842);
    oPage.DrawTextColor('Hello sgcPDF', 50, 780, sfHelveticaBold, 24, 0, 0.2, 0.6);
    oPage.DrawLine(50, 770, 545, 770, 1.5);
    oPage.DrawText('A PDF written in pure Pascal.', 50, 740, sfHelvetica, 12);
    oPDF.SaveToFile(AFileName);
  finally
    oPDF.Free;
  end;
end;