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imal-h/pdf-box
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The most advanced, driver-based PDF manipulation library for PHP v3.0. Supports Ghostscript, Chrome Headless (HTML to PDF), OpenSSL/FPDI (Signing), and PDFtk (Forms).

v3.2.0(3mo ago)60403.9k—7.8%[7 PRs](https://github.com/imalhasaranga/PDFLib/pulls)MITPHP >=8.1

Since Sep 5Compare

[ Source](https://github.com/imalhasaranga/PDFLib)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/imal-h/pdf-box)[ Docs](https://github.com/imalhasaranga/PDFLib.git)[ RSS](/packages/imal-h-pdf-box/feed)WikiDiscussions Synced 1mo ago

READMEChangelogDependencies (7)Versions (26)Used By (0)

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###  Health Score

58

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FairBetter than 98% of packages

Maintenance80

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity45

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community2

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity82

Battle-tested with a long release history

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~156 days

Recently: every ~4 days

Total

23

Last Release

106d ago

Major Versions

1.5.0 → 2.0.02025-12-23

2.0.1 → v3.0.0-alpha2025-12-31

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.0PHP >=5.5.0

v3.0.0-alphaPHP >=8.1

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1076374?v=4)[Imal Hasaranga Perera](/maintainers/imalhasaranga)[@imalhasaranga](https://github.com/imalhasaranga)

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Tags

phppdfmanipulationghostscriptpdftkdigital-signaturehtml-to-pdfdriver-basedform-fillingchrome-headless

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StyleLaravel Pint

Type Coverage Yes

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