PDF Extraction Library for iOS

Extract content and data from PDF documents with PSPDFKit for iOS. It offers developers a way to quickly parse and read PDF content, retrieve forms and annotations, extract digital signatures, and more.

PSPDFKit SDKs are deployed in some of the world’s most popular applications, such as those made by Autodesk, Disney, DocuSign, Dropbox, IBM, and Lufthansa.

Key Capabilities

• Parse and read — Text, forms, signatures, annotations, and more

• Extract text and images — From each page for processing

• Form fields — Extract form info and values

• Annotations — Retrieve all annotations as JSON or XFDF

• Digital signatures — Get all validation info present in the PDF

• Extendable — Add a search UI, annotation, forms, and more

Guides for Extraction

Parse Content
How to parse page text, glyphs, text blocks, words, and images

Text Extraction
How to extract the full text content from a PDF page or document

Image Extraction
How to programmatically extract bitmap images from a PDF page

Page Extraction
How to extract PDF pages and insert them into a new document

Extract Selected Text
How to retrieve selected text and text located within a selection range

Text Position
How to read the location of text elements at different granularities

Metadata
How to access a PDF’s information dictionary and XMP stream