Decision Workspace
pdf-engine vs rpdfium vs kreuzberg-pdfium-render
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
54
pdf-engine
experimentalv1.0.0-beta.6
Unified PDF rendering engine — page rendering, text extraction, thumbnails.
51
rpdfium
experimentalv7676.6.4
A faithful Rust port of Google's PDFium PDF rendering engine
66
kreuzberg-pdfium-render
experimentalv4.9.8
High-level idiomatic Rust wrapper around Pdfium. Fork of pdfium-render with Kreuzberg patches.
Core Metrics
| pdf-engine | rpdfium | kreuzberg-pdfium-render | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 54 | 51 | 66 |
| Total Downloads | 101 | 82 | 53.9K |
| 30d Downloads | 0 | 0 | 13.7K |
| Dependents | 5 | 0 | 85 |
| Releases | 4 | 5 | 56 |
| Last Updated | 12d ago | 68d ago | 8d ago |
| Age | 23d | 3m | 5m |
Health Breakdown
pdf-engine
Maintenance
13
Quality
15
Community
13
Popularity
2
Documentation
11
rpdfium
Maintenance
14
Quality
17
Community
6
Popularity
2
Documentation
12
kreuzberg-pdfium-render
Maintenance
18
Quality
16
Community
11
Popularity
6
Documentation
15
Technical Details
| pdf-engine | rpdfium | kreuzberg-pdfium-render | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 1.0.0-beta.6 | 7676.6.4 | 4.9.8 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| License | non-standard | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Dependencies | 28 | 13 | 18 |
| Crate Size | 115KB | 80KB | 402KB |
| Features | 11 | 4 | 5 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2021 | 2024 | 2024 |
| MSRV | — | 1.85 | 1.91 |
| Owners | 2 (team) | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •kreuzberg-pdfium-render leads with a health score of 66/100, but none of the options score above 80.