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pdfium-render

v0.9.1 Growing

A high-level idiomatic Rust wrapper around Pdfium, the C++ PDF library used by the Google Chromium project.

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2021 MSRV 1.61

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 23d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 389 crates
  • !Heavy dependency tree (27 direct deps)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
1.1M
Dependents
389
Releases
86
Size
3.6MB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

167.7K downloads in the last 30 days (5.6K/day), up 56% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

389 crates depend on pdfium-render. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 4+ years old, pdfium-render hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Heavy dependency tree

27 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.

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Large crate size

3.6MB is relatively large. May impact download and compile times.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include pdf_oxide, seekstorm, redacter, pdfium-auto, pdf2pwg. When high-quality crates choose pdfium-render, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 18/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 12/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 12/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
4K/day avg+121%
02K4K6K8K2/263/164/34/215/95/26

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.8.37
59%
v0.8.35
13%
v0.9.0
11%
v0.8.36
9%
v0.8.34
9%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["pdfium_latest", "image_latest", "thread_safe"]

libc++staticflattenbindingsimage_023image_024image_025image_apilibstdc++paragraphconsole_logpdfium_5961pdfium_6015pdfium_6043pdfium_6084pdfium_6110pdfium_6124pdfium_6164pdfium_6259pdfium_6295pdfium_6337pdfium_6406pdfium_6490pdfium_6555pdfium_6569pdfium_6611pdfium_6666pdfium_6721pdfium_6996pdfium_7123pdfium_7215pdfium_7350pdfium_7543pdfium_7763thread_safe*image_latest*core_graphicspdfium_futurepdfium_latest*pdfium_use_skiapdfium_enable_v8pdfium_use_win32pdfium_enable_xfa

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
27
direct dependencies
Dependents
389
crates depend on pdfium-render

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