Munich-based PDFlib GmbH, founded in 2000, develops and sells leading edge development tools for server-centric generation and processing of PDF documents.

The well-known PDFlib software suite is a programming library which allows the programmer to generate and manipulate PDF files and integrate this ability into any application or server environment. PDFlib GmbH sold more than 11000 commercial licenses of its software tools in more than 60 countries.

Customers of PDFlib GmbH use the software for automated and high volume generation and processing of PDF documents in business and prepress workflows or for online billing systems. The development tools of PDFlib GmbH are readily available for all common environments (operating systems and programming languages) as commercial versions and partially as open source. PDFlib GmbH sells worldwide, with main markets in North America, Germany and Japan.

PDFlib GmbH is led by Thomas Merz, internationally renowned expert on PDF.