Package

pdf-oxide

The fastest Node.js PDF library — 0.8ms mean, 5× faster than the industry leaders, 100% pass rate on 3,830 real-world PDFs. Prebuilt native bindings, no build toolchain: text extraction, Markdown/HTML conversion, PDF creation and editing.

v0.3.77, 28 Jul 2026MIT OR Apache-2.0ESM onlyTypes: BundledPDF and documents

$ npm install pdf-oxide

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Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026

Weekly downloads: 1.8k; - over 12 months
Gzip bundle size: -; No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies: 1; Direct, from package.json
Last release: 1 month ago; v0.3.77
GitHub stars: 1k; 131 forks
Open issues / PRs: 90 / 22
Contributors: -
Commits, last 52 weeks: 1,691

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21

Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

1,785 downloads last week, 8,024 in the last month. No 52-week series has been fetched yet.

Maintenance

Releases, last 12 months: -
Latest version: 0.3.77, 28 Jul 20261 month ago
First published: -
Last push to GitHub: 22 Sept 20262 days before the snapshot
Repository archived: No
Open issues: 90
Open pull requests: 22
Commits, last 52 weeks: 1,691
Dependents on npm: 0

Major versions

Recent releases

Compatibility

Module format: ESM onlyFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types: Bundled
Node.js engine range: >=18.0.0
Runtimes: -
Unpacked size (npm): 195.0 MB
Dependencies (1): async-mutex

Install

npm install pdf-oxide

CDN

jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/pdf-oxide@0.3.77/
unpkghttps://unpkg.com/pdf-oxide@0.3.77/
esm.shhttps://esm.sh/pdf-oxide@0.3.77

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Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

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