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pdfium-render

v0.9.2 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 30d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 520 crates
  • !Heavy dependency tree (27 direct deps)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

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Downloads
1.6M
Dependents
520
Releases
87
Size
3.7MB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

319.5K downloads in the last 30 days (10.7K/day), up 20% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

520 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

3.7MB is relatively large. May impact download and compile times.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include pdf_oxide, pdfium-auto, seekstorm, edgequake-pdf2md, redacter. When high-quality crates choose pdfium-render, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 17/25

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
8K/day avg+24%
05K10K15K20K4/265/146/16/197/77/24

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.8.37
57%
v0.9.0
21%
v0.9.1
9%
v0.8.35
7%
v0.8.36
5%

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
520
crates depend on pdfium-render

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