pdfium-render
v0.8.37 GrowingA high-level idiomatic Rust wrapper around Pdfium, the C++ PDF library used by the Google Chromium project.
Quick Verdict
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Trusted by 244 crates
- !Heavy dependency tree (27 direct deps)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
71.5K downloads in the last 30 days (2.4K/day), up 24% from the previous period.
244 crates depend on pdfium-render. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.
Despite being 4+ years old, pdfium-render hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
27 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.
3.5MB is relatively large. May impact download and compile times.
Notable dependents include seekstorm, redacter, pdf_oxide, pdf2pwg, readah. When high-quality crates choose pdfium-render, it's a strong quality signal.
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Most downloaded crates that depend on pdfium-render
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Feature Flags
default =["pdfium_latest", "thread_safe", "image"]
