# bblanchon/pdfium-binaries

📰 Binary distribution of PDFium

Repository: https://github.com/bblanchon/pdfium-binaries
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pdfium-binaries
Language: Shell
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: pdfium, c, cpp, pdf
Last push: 2026-08-26T12:04:04+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3271, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 8, "gap_med": 6, "n_releases_24m": 94}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1456, forks 289 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:46.949602+00:00)

## What it is
A project that automatically builds and distributes pre-compiled binaries of Google's PDFium PDF rendering library for many platforms and CPU architectures. Releases are generated weekly via CI and published on GitHub Releases and NuGet.

## Use cases
- get prebuilt pdfium binaries instead of building from source
- render pdf files in a c++ application
- link pdfium into an android or ios app
- use pdfium in a .net project via nuget
- build a pdf viewer or pdf text extraction tool
- compile pdfium for webassembly

## When to choose
- you need PDFium without the pain of building Chromium's toolchain
- you need binaries for multiple platforms and architectures
- you want regularly updated PDFium builds

## When to avoid
- you need a high-level PDF API rather than the raw C PDFium interface
- you need a custom PDFium build with non-default patches or flags
- you need a different PDF engine like MuPDF or Poppler

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: pdf, pdf-viewer, developer-tools
- domain: pdf, files, developer-tools
- platform: windows, wasm, cross-platform
- tags: pdfium, precompiled-binaries, binary-distribution, ci-builds, nuget, linux, macos, android, ios

## Member repositories
- bblanchon/pdfium-binaries (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:46.949602+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:35:35.926715+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bblanchon/pdfium-binaries (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:46.949602+00:00, sha b3b7b4b94e5b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.