go-pdfium-render

A golang libary that uses to cgo/pdfium to render pdfs to images.

Why pdfium? Because it is the best in class and because it has a BSD style license, also there will be continued development on pdfium as long as chrome is around. [0]

Install

Pdfium binaries needs to be present on your system and pkg-config should be able to find it.

I wrote my own .pc file.

prefix=/opt/pdfium
libdir=/opt/pdfium/lib
includedir=/opt/pdfium/include

Name: pdfium
Description: pdfium
Version: 3580
Requires:

Libs: -L${libdir} -lpdfium
Cflags: -I${includedir}

Resources

[0] https://tinyurl.com/yd5fb2rz (PDF rendering engine performance and fidelity comparison)
[2] https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/+/HEAD/docs/getting-started.md
[3] https://karthikkaranth.me/blog/calling-c-code-from-go/
[4] https://github.com/arrieta/golang-cpp-basic-example
[5] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pdfium/r6KCGo6q7Fo
[6] https://github.com/cgilling/build-pdfium
[7] http://cdn01.foxitsoftware.com/pub/foxit/manual/enu/FoxitPDF_SDK20_Guide.pdf
[8] https://github.com/bblanchon/pdfium-binaries
[9] https://tinyurl.com/y8s3aen5 (libvips)