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MuPDF vs Poppler: catalog facts
MuPDF	Poppler
Free Free and open source under the AGPL. Commercial licensing is sold separately.	Free Free and open source under the GPL.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Extremely fast and small, with accurate rendering The bundled mutool covers most scripted PDF manipulation	pdftotext and pdftoppm are the standard tools for extraction and rasterising Underpins PDF rendering across the Linux desktop
The viewer interface is deliberately minimal and keyboard-driven Commercial use of the library needs a paid licence from Artifex	Licensed under the GPL, so programs calling it must be too A library plus utilities rather than an application
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License: GPL-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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