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PDF.js vs. Nutrient

Explore Nutrient’s edge in advanced features, wider file compatibility, reliable text management, superior rendering, and easy custom functionality — a robust and efficient solution that clearly outshines PDF.js.

Compare Nutrient and PDF.js

What makes Nutrient the best PDF.js alternative?

Extended functionality and format compatibility

Nutrient offers advanced features, such as annotations and page manipulation, outpacing the display-only capability of PDF.js. Plus, Nutrient’s broad file format compatibility negates the need for third-party conversion applications.

Reliable text management and access

With Nutrient, text selection is precise, ensuring reliable text management and compliance with accessibility standards like 508/ADA — a clear edge over the inconsistent text handling in PDF.js.

High quality rendering and pricing

Unlike PDF.js, which can yield blurry outputs and color fidelity issues, Nutrient guarantees high-quality, clear outputs and accurate color representation, ensuring excellent viewing and printing results.

Simplified custom functionality

Nutrient streamlines the implementation and maintenance of custom features, offering a smoother workflow compared to the potential disruptions and extra upkeep required with PDF.js.


PDF.js key flaws

Annotation limitations

Lacks support for advanced annotations, page manipulation, redaction, eSignatures, and pinch-to-zoom for mobile.

Third-party dependence

Requires third-party applications for converting and viewing MS Office documents, TXT files, and images.

Selection inconsistencies

Inconsistent text selection due to missing or incorrect text bounding boxes, resulting in spacing issues and missing words.

Compliance challenges

Faces challenges in complying with standards like 508/ADA due to unreliable text extraction.

Quality concerns

May deliver blurry outputs and inaccurate printing, with issues in color fidelity when rendering canvases.

Update disruptions

Requires regular support and monitoring, potentially disrupting your custom features due to frequent open source community updates.


PDF.js vs. Nutrient at a glance

Nutrient not only encompasses all the features of PDF.js, but it offers much more. The following comparison table highlights the key features PDF.js lacks.

Nutrient
PDF.js
Render/view PDFs
Search text
Add text
Select/copy text
Draw lines
Rotate pages

PDF.js allows page rotation, but downloaded PDFs don’t retain this.

Page thumbnails
Open/print/download PDFs
UI customization
Limited
eSignatures
Digital signatures
Instant synchronization/comments
Content editing
Measurement tools
Redaction
Document conversion
Office file support
Image documents
PDF generation
PDF/A conversion
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Steve Cangiano
Director of Product Management
“We found the tool set to be very deep, and it allowed us to take total control of the data moving between our application and Nutrient. The quality of the product is extremely high, and we know it will handle just about anything we throw at it.”
CMiC

Experience unmatched efficiency with Nutrient’s powerful AI suite

Nutrient offers a potent suite of proprietary AI tools for sophisticated workflows, surpassing the capabilities of PDF.js and other competitors.

KVP extraction

Key-value pair extraction for labeled information in unstructured and semi-structured documents.

Smart redaction

Smart redaction engine that uses AI to identify and remove sensitive data from documents.

Table extraction

Table extraction engine to extract data from scanned and low-quality documents.

Barcodes

Read and write barcodes from various image formats, recognize orientation, and provide string values and bounding boxes.


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