ImageGear PDF provides a comprehensive API, enabling you to read, write, display, edit, and annotate Portable Document Format (PDF), PostScript (PS), and Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) formats.  See the PDF section for a tutorial that will help you get started using ImageGear PDF as well as How to... topics that will help you perform common PDF operations.

• Convert and Compress
  Convert to and from PDF, and specify the compression settings that will suit your needs. ImageGear supports the most commonly used graphics file formats with most of the industry-standard compression algorithms. See File Formats and Compressions.
• Manipulate
  Split or merge PDF files, as well as add, remove, or rearrange pages in a PDF.
• Compare
  Compare text and image contents of two documents, saving a new document with the changes highlighted as markup.
• Use Forms
  Read, write, and create interactive form fields with the PDF AcroForms feature. See Working with PDF Forms.
• Secure
  Secure your PDF documents with encryption and password access. Decrypt password-protected documents and save them with or without encryption.
• Sign
  Digitally sign documents to certify their integrity, allow or deny changes, and confirm creator identity.
• OCR (Optional licensed add-on)
  Use our Optical Character Recognition functionality to recognize text and images, including support for language detection, zones, and confidence reporting.

ImageGear additionally provides low-level access to PDF document internals for extensive control over PDF structures.

After you’ve installed ImageGear PDF, to get started using it...

• Try out our samples and demos
  ImageGear provides a variety of easy-to-use sample programs and images to help get you up and running quickly. You can use the provided sample images for any purpose, such as testing your applications as you develop them.

• Walk through our PDF tutorial
  The tutorial steps you through creating a new ImageGear PDF project.
• Browse through our How to... topics
  The How to… topics provide step-by-step instructions with code examples to help you perform common PDF operations.