pdf-xfa

XFA processing engine — extraction, layout rendering, font resolution. Experimental — under active development.

This crate is part of the PDFluent commercial Rust PDF SDK.

Free for evaluation. Production use requires a valid license.

What it does

Implements the XFA (XML Forms Architecture) processing pipeline used by Dutch government forms, banking forms, and other complex interactive PDFs that AcroForms cannot represent. Parses the XFA template, merges with data, runs FormCalc expressions, lays out pages, and renders to PDF or paginated output.

Status

Experimental. XFA support is still under active development. Visual fidelity (SSIM vs Adobe Reader oracle) is currently around 45% of the 391-document corpus and improving steadily. Not yet recommended for production XFA workflows. Use behind a feature flag and validate output on your specific corpus.

For non-XFA PDF processing, the rest of the SDK is production-grade.

Usage

Most users do not depend on this crate directly. Use the pdfluent facade with the xfa-flatten feature:

use pdfluent::prelude::*;

For low-level access, see https://pdfluent.com/docs.

Licensing

• Free for evaluation, development, and testing
• Production use requires a valid PDFluent commercial license
• Redistribution requires the OEM Redistribution add-on

See LICENSE for full terms, or visit https://pdfluent.com/terms.

Links

• Main crate: https://crates.io/crates/pdfluent
• Documentation: https://pdfluent.com/docs
• Trial: https://pdfluent.com/trial
• Pricing: https://pdfluent.com/pricing