Poppler

Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base.

What's with the name?

Discuss poppler on the poppler mailing list, or visit the #poppler irc channel on irc.libera.chat, which is also bridged to Matrix.

Download

The latest stable release is poppler-26.04.0.tar.xz, released on April 1, 2026:

        core:
         * Splash: Improve knockout groups rendering. Issue #1538
         * Improve reconstruction of damaged files
         * Performance improvement in files with peculiar Form objects. Issue #1682
         * Fix memory leak if embedding png fails
         * Internal code improvements

        qt5:
         * Fix inverted continuation rect in performMultipleTextSearch

        qt6:
         * Fix inverted continuation rect in performMultipleTextSearch

The tarball has been signed (.sig file) by Albert Astals Cid CA262C6C83DE4D2FB28A332A3A6A4DB839EAA6D7.

Besides poppler you are also going to need poppler encoding data: poppler-data-0.4.12.tar.gz, released on February 1, 2023.

Previous poppler releases are available here.

Git

Poppler is developed using git. To clone the repository use the following command:

git clone https://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/poppler.git

or browse (via cgit) (via gitlab) the repository. Please send patches via gitlab merge requests.

Documentation

Poppler comes with multiple frontends (APIs): cpp, glib, qt5 and qt6. Following is a list of already generated documentation. You can always generate up to date documentation from the source code.

Wiki

Poppler Wiki.

TODO

Check out the bugs filed against poppler and the issues found by oss-fuzz.

Bugs

Use gitlab to report bugs or suggest enhancements.

If you have documents that don't render properly with poppler, please open a bug and attach the PDF file there, if possible.

Continuous Integration

We run continuous integration via the gitlab CI on:

• Debian Unstable (gcc and clang)
• Ubuntu 24.04 (gcc)
• Fedora 44 (mingw and clazy)
• Android (via KDE Android docker images)

There are a few non official CI too:

Packaged Versions

This is a non-complete list of packaged versions of poppler and poppler-data.

poppler

poppler-data