JavaScript library for creating and modifying PDF documents in any browser or runtime.
Found via: Product Hunt 31 · StackScope Discovery (Indie) 80 · StackScope Wider Web 73
pdf-lib has been detected on 28 launches we've crawled. Most recent detection: Smart Compress, today.
It's most commonly paired with PDF.js, Google Fonts, and cdnjs. By product type, the launches using it are most often Productivity (93%) and Developer Tools (7%). The 28 scored launches using pdf-lib average a StackScope score of 6.3 out of 10, against 6.3 across all launches we score.
What kind of products ship with pdf-lib
28 launches
Domain endings using pdf-lib
31 launches
- .com 32.26%
- .online 29.03%
Share of new launches using pdf-lib
Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average; weekly averages before May 2026. Chart starts at first detection.
How StackScope detects technologies
⋮ Jun 22, 2026: Improved detection coverage for this technology.
⋮ Jul 1, 2026: Adoption figures now count launches from launch platforms. Use the source view to include StackScope Discovery.
Javascript Library leaders
| Tool | % of launches | % of category | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | – |
|
5.58% | 30.15% |
| #2 | ▲1 |
|
4.24% | 22.91% |
| #3 | ▼2 |
|
4.17% | 22.53% |
| #4 | – |
|
1.67% | 9.01% |
| #5 | ▼2 |
|
1.24% | 6.70% |
| … | ||||
| #53 | ▲3 |
|
0.04% | 0.20% |
Percentages show adoption among indie launches: the share of all analysed launches, and of launches using any Javascript Library tool.Among July launches it ranked #47 in Javascript Library, up from #50 in June. All 346 in Javascript Library →
Most recent of 28 launches using pdf-lib
Smart Compress
Folia
Productivity
PDF WithMe
Productivity
Edit Scanned PDF
FileMagicPro Free PDF & File Converter
Productivity
SecurePDFRedactor
Productivity
All Rest api
Developer Tools
TrumpPDF
Productivity
AirSign
Productivity
Utilify
OCR PDF
Productivity
NullPoint
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