# Apryse PDF SDK Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is Apryse PDF SDK the right PDF solution for you? Explore 27 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/237151/Apryse-Developer-Suite/reviews --- Apryse PDF SDK 4.3 (27) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/237151/Apryse-Developer-Suite/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of Apryse PDF SDK Ease of use 4.1 Customer Service 3.9 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews Joe L Software DeveloperEducation Management, 501 - 1,000 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “I also like that the API is similar to that used by Apryse web viewer.“ August 14, 2025 Honglei L CTOMarketing and Advertising, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Customer support was minimal — the only time we could reliably speak with someone was right before renewal.“ August 14, 2025 Anil P DirectorInformation Services, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “The SDK was simple to integrate into our program, and we have now extended it out to our application.“ July 16, 2022 John Y Principal product managerInternet, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “Also the support team is not all that responsive“ August 14, 2025 JM João M Co-Owner & Full Stack DeveloperInformation Technology and Services, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “Pricing transparency is a big con in PDFTRON.“ January 31, 2023 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 27 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use John Y. Principal product manager Internet Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great product to increase your customer's ability to collaborate" August 14, 2025 5.0 Above average so far. Our team has been able to fully implement this solution during the course of a quarter. Pros Easy way to elevate our collaboration offering by providing means for our users to annotate and then communicate on a file. Cons A few of the workflows are a bit confusing for users. Also the support team is not all that responsive Review Source SH Steve H. Senior Product Engineer Insurance Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Enterprise level functionality but still easy to use" December 15, 2021 5.0 The pre-sales technical support was excellent and made it really fast and easy to spin up a POC . Pros PDFTron was by far the most feature rich product offering we looked at. Also the fact that they don't just wrap another open source rendering engine like PDFium gave us confidence they had built their product from the ground up and had total control. Cons The price tag was on the higher end compared to other alternatives but for enterprise software I think its worth it for all the features they offer. They were also flexible during pricing talks to find a comfortable landing spot that worked for both parties. Alternatives considered [Nutrient SDKs](https://www.capterra.com/p/171174/PSPDFKit-SDK/) Reason for choosing Apryse PDF SDK It came down to the ownership of the rendering engine and ease of use of the API. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CTO Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Support and PDF editing functionalities need a lot of improvements" August 14, 2025 3.0 We were Apryse customers for two years, but the experience was underwhelming. Customer support was minimal — the only time we could reliably speak with someone was right before renewal. We also couldn’t fully adopt the SDK in production due to numerous unhandled edge cases in its PDF editing API, and their team was reluctant to make improvements to address our needs. Pros PDF viewer functionality is comprehensive - allowing people to view, search, annotate, edit and download. Cons PDF editing APIs are not working for many cases - not matching fonts, styles, line spacing, layouts, etc. Review Source PR Pablo R. Director of Business Development E-Learning Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Leader in the industry" December 15, 2021 4.0 I consider it as a leader in the industry. Pros Quite comprehensive product based on the company development with no dependencies -as far as I know- with open source libraries. Cons Moving from one version to another is not that smooth process. The product is rather expensive. Alternatives considered [Nutrient SDKs](https://www.capterra.com/p/171174/PSPDFKit-SDK/) Reason for choosing Apryse PDF SDK At the time of first implementing, there was no other solid alternative for commercial use. Review Source PL Petter L. Tech Lead Government Administration Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Apryse in our Spring boot app and use of Word templates to PDF" November 19, 2025 5.0 Easy to set up in our Java Spring boot application and generated PDF from our Word templates get all layout right from our template, which is very important. Pros Easy to generate PDF from Word templates. Works great with simple syntax in the template to generate dynamic tables with JSON-data input. It works great for us Cons Should be easier to grant a license for unlimted generation of PDFs. Not always easy for a company to know how many PDFs they will create in a year Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Developer Education Management Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Good tool, excellent support" August 14, 2025 4.0 Thank you to the very responsive support team I was able to quickly transition to the PDF SDK. I also like that the API is similar to that used by Apryse web viewer. Pros I've used iTextSharp in the past, the PDF SDK is different but has excellent support for annotations Cons Mostly documentation, which would benefit from more examples of common use scenarios. Licensing is a little wonky Review Source Kyle K. CTO Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Apryse makes it easy for small product companies to deliver professional features" April 28, 2023 5.0 Pros As a one person product team I was able to implement Apryse in a matter of days and offer a whole new set of features to our customers Cons Earlier on the documentation left me wanting more, but it has improved over the years. Review Source Daniel M. Mobile Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best PDF SDK in the market" January 28, 2022 5.0 All good so far. Much better than competitors Pros Updates, Customer support, Technical Support Cons Nothing, I am struggling to find out something negative Review Source Samridhi G. Human Resources Specialist Real Estate Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Seamless experience" December 27, 2022 4.0 Pros We are very pleased to find that adding new features and migrating to a new version is so straightforward. The annotation tools are exactly what we needed for an internal document collaboration tool. Cons Although there is nothing negative about what they offer today, I would like them to add additional PDF services. These issues often took a while to resolve, sometimes taking months, but they were ultimately fixed. Fortunately, older versions would still work which gave us the option of rolling back while waiting for a fix to arrive. Review Source Anil P. Director Information Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Best PDF Editing SDK" July 16, 2022 5.0 So far, updates, customer service, and technical support have all been satisfactory. Much better than the competition. Pros PDFTron is an excellent application for working with PDFs. The SDK was simple to integrate into our program, and we have now extended it out to our application. Overall, it's an excellent product. Cons It is difficult to configure and integrate the SDK with our software product. The documentation is also out of current, thus embedding takes time. Review Source JM João M. Co-Owner & Full Stack Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Go-to market failure, product failed to meet requirements and no refund" January 31, 2023 1.0 Sales team communicated that we could test the Webviewer module for free as it is open source, but having access to test the digital signature module we needed to subscribe the add-on. We were pressured in time and we agreed to pay in advance to have access to the feature. Wrongly were we aware that we could test the whole suite of add-ons for free using the trial key.After 6500$ invested in PDFTRON, their product simply didn’t work as advertised, leaving us empty handed and a whole mess to cleanup up in our product.I could stop here, but things got worse afterwards. We were extremely frustrated with this situation. Missing our go-live target was a strong blow to the team that had a major job to implement everything from scratch properly.So we reached out to PDFTRON to get our money back. We got barriers upon barriers, calls after calls, departments after departments and the same message “This issue is in management hands and I cannot do anything about it.”.Another module we requested was PDF/A conversion. After testing with many different files, we found one situation were the conversion failed. So we could not rely on it.For reference, we started implementation on September 12, 2022. Our go-live target was October 20, 2022. On November 30, 2022, we decided to give up on PDFTRON. On January 30, 2023 we are still waiting for a proper response and our money back. Pros Having a suite of products around PDF covers all our needs. Even though it didn’t work for us. Cons Our relationship was painful from the start.We were announced that our use case for digital signatures was pretty common and would be a 2 week integration effort.Those 2 weeks turned into more than a month!Working around PDFTRON Webviewer to customize behavior is almost impossible.We tried, unsuccessfully, manipulating the interface to implement a similar experience you get when signing in Docusign for example.If the UI is painful to work with, using the digital signature APIs a whole set of problems.Our requirement for digital signatures was to sign the document hash externally, through multiple providers, and use PDFTRON to complete the signing process.Well, after trying 3!! Different methods from their SDKs (Webviewer client side, Nodejs server side and Java server side) we always got different errors during API calls.We reported all this issues to their support and got into video calls with the product tech team as well. They got to see the errors first hand and could not reproduce. Please consider this fact as well: the time to answer a ticket was more than a week!! We had to pressure their team to get an answer and to this day no solution was presented. In the end we gave up.Pricing transparency is a big con in PDFTRON. Everything is an add-on, requiring specific licensing terms and contracts. Reason for choosing Apryse PDF SDK The native webviewer was the main decision. PDPFTRON seemed the most complete suite of SDKs. We then realised it didn't work as they advertised and decided to implement everything our own. Review Source RB Rick B. Senior Consultant Government Administration Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Easy To Use, Difficult to Customize" April 21, 2023 4.0 Great then frustrating. Great in that we were able to implement and tweak easily with your support team's help.Frustrating with certain "gotches" like client adding text to the DOCX file and seeing footers moved to next page. I have not been able to overcome that issue as yet. Pros Quick and easy implementation on a new project Cons I made use of a ready-made pdftodocx.exe from your downloads. It works well except for some things. I need to make use of the full SDK in order to take advantage of the latest developments as you are not providing a ready-made pdftodocx.exe any longer. Reason for choosing Apryse PDF SDK You provided a ready-made, easy to plug-and-play pdftodocx.exe that met the needs of our new project. We generate customized report using eRDPro from Actuate (Opentext) then convert them to PDF and then convert the PDFs to DOCX files and remove the PDF, all within the report. Review Source mB margaret B. product Manager Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Not happy at all with support we are seriously looking at alternatives if support does not improve" February 1, 2022 3.0 Sales team are good but Technical support not listening to us or not helpful on critical issues. eg.. Digital signature issues,. Pros Compared to Adobe it is hard to find anything as good. This was the best alternative at the time. Cons Service on issues and features is slow and they do not listen and push back. They close tickets that are not resolved...very annoying issues system. Reason for choosing Apryse PDF SDK Comparatively very similar to alternatives and price reasonable. Not as good as Adobe but we had to find an alternative. Review Source Response from Apryse February 4, 2022 Thank you for your feedback. We're sorry to hear that the tech support experience did not meet your expectations. Our support team will reach out to you directly and assist with any critical issues you're facing. AL Alessandro L. Developer Information Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Cannot install my perpetual license" May 5, 2022 4.0 Cannot move license to a new server if I dont buy a new license. This is the reply from the service: " Hi \[SENSITIVE CONTENT\] , Sorry, we can't help you any further here without a current license subscription. " I sent them a screen shot with an error indicating that the switched of the license activator server! Pros It was the first pdf converter. Now I found cheaper but FASTER alternatives Cons Really disappinted about how pdftron is treating old Activepdf license buyers. I have a perpetual license that no longer activates because of not-working service from them. Contacted the support: they asked me to buy a support contract, that is sold only with a new license. They think I need support, but I only need to move the license to a new server. Online activation return "there was an error parsing the returned data". Reason for choosing Apryse PDF SDK Non lo preferisco piu' Review Source NH Nathaniel H. Sr. Product Manager Aviation & Aerospace Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Product Enhancement Review" December 15, 2021 4.0 Overall it's a great product and you have excellent customer support. I just need some better transparency and clarity on the pricing and inclusion of our current license. Pros The SDK was easy to incorporate into our software and we've rolled out to our application Cons The biggest gap is pricing transparency. It's confusing to understand what is included, what we have access to within our account, etc. Review Source BW Bryan W. Director of Application Development Insurance Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "XFA Solution" February 18, 2022 5.0 We were facing an issue with over a million XFA PDFs in our imaging system. These weren't your normal XFA documents, they were very unique in how they were created. We talked with various vendors. All of them advised that we couldn't automate the flattening of these documents. PDFTron didn't back away from the challenge. Correy and Johnna did an outstanding job of working with us to come up with a solution utilizing the PDFTron products. I am very impressed with the tenacity at which they approached the challenge. I would strongly recommended PDFTron and the people behind the products! Pros Expertise in working with PDFs and Customer Support Cons Haven't found any at this point in our project Review Source AM Ashish M. VP Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "PDFTron Doc Conversion" December 15, 2021 5.0 Pros ease of use; easy interface; new features Cons Not many issues with the software to mention. Review Source AK Alex K. Lead Software Engineer Architecture & Planning Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The best solution for PDFs on the web" February 18, 2022 5.0 Pros PDFTron's Webviewer is a fantastic tool for working with PDFs in a web browser. The support and documentation is great, and the SDK is very flexible to fit many different use cases. Cons The cost of PDFTron is high. The importance to our business justifies the cost, but it was definitely a hurdle for us when comparing this product to other PDF web solutions. Review Source AM Alex M. Product Directoy Legal Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great software, but still some work to be done." December 15, 2021 4.0 Pros PDFtron is a great company to work with. When we started using them there were many features that were missing, however they have continually worked with us to improve the product and make it a better product suite. Cons Occasionally support can be lacking and the developers are left to struggle through it themselves. Review Source RK Rohit K. Delivery Manager Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "PDFTron technical help" January 31, 2022 4.0 Excellent Pros Annotation types and ease to integrate web and sdk Cons It takes time to load PDF if having 20+ pages Alternatives considered [Adobe XD](https://www.capterra.com/p/168423/Adobe-XD/)[PDF Reader Pro](https://www.capterra.com/p/182363/PDF-Reader-Pro/) Reason for choosing Apryse PDF SDK sales support and pricing Review Source CC Christopher C. Software Developer Insurance Used the software for: 2+ years ### "PDFTron SDK Review" January 28, 2022 4.0 Pros The vast featureset of the PDFTron SDK makes it a valuable PDF management and document creation tool for any company. Cons Bugs do crop up from time to time. Sometimes pretty detrimental ones that should have probably been seen in QA testing. It can take a while for them to eventually get fixed. Reason for choosing Apryse PDF SDK Large featureset, single dll, redistributable licensing Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Founder & CEO Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "PDFTron has been an outstanding addition to our product offering" May 29, 2018 4.0 Pros We use PDFTron in thousands of instances daily. The solution is used to render creative files and office files into PDF and then to allow us to manage annotation and mark ups. Cons the set up of the product takes some consideration, it is important you set it up appropriate for your needs else it will cost you time. Review Source KA Kashif A. Technical Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "PDF sdk " April 28, 2023 4.0 Pros It have html viewer is the one of best feature you will not find in any other competitor. In other words it provide you complete components for all aspects of your application Cons Purchase process by account manager is badLicensing options are not friendly Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Customer Service Specialist Health, Wellness and Fitness Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Fantastic PDF tool" July 2, 2022 4.0 Pros PDFtron is a fantastic pdf tool with rich product offerings from annotations to signatures, it has got everything covered. Integration of web and SDKs was very easy. Support and documentation is also top notch. Cons Pricing needs to be more transparent and also it is comparatively on a higher end in comparison to competitors in the market. Review Source AS Alan S. software engineer Pharmaceuticals Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Very good!" January 28, 2022 5.0 I really like PDFTron Pros It's pretty, easy to setup and the tecnical support is very good Cons The documentation was not up to date, we need more examples and maybe some project examples would be helpful Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.