free alternative to iTextSharp

c# itextsharp
AMH picture AMH · Sep 15, 2013 · Viewed 28.3k times · Source

I have a project not open source and I need to use something like iTextSharp , because iTextSharp licence say it should only be used in open sources

any alternative please

Answer

Ryan T. Grimm picture Ryan T. Grimm · Sep 15, 2013

There are multiple options.

PDFSharp

You could try PDFsharp it has an MIT license which means according to what it says here you should be able to use in a commercial product.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

FreeSpire.Doc

There's also FreeSpire.Doc (on NuGet), which is limited to 3 pages and 500 paragraphs. It can convert Word documents to PDFs.

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