PDF Go 1.0 is here
The first stable version of our PDF library for Go: read, validate, repair, sign and encrypt, with the standard library only.
PDF Go has its first stable version: v1.0.0, released on 30 October 2026. The library reads, validates, repairs, signs and encrypts PDF files using only the Go standard library, with no CGo and no third-party modules.
With 1.0 comes a promise: public interfaces stay stable within v1. If you build PDF Go in today, you won't have to rewrite anything for the next versions. Incompatible changes would only come with a new major version.
The stable core covers bounded reading, earlier revisions of a file, object editing, and writing either as a full rewrite or as an incremental update. Rendering, text extraction, encryption, CMS signatures and structural validation are included to the extent the documentation describes.
Install the library and the command-line tool like this; you need Go 1.26 or newer:
go get gitlab.schukai.com/oss/libraries/go/documents/pdf@v1.0.0
go install gitlab.schukai.com/oss/libraries/go/documents/pdf/cmd/pdfgo@v1.0.0PDF Go is licensed under AGPL-3.0. A commercial licence is available for use in your own software without disclosing your code.
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