pdfium_flutter

Flutter FFI plugin for loading PDFium native libraries. This package bundles PDFium binaries for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux.

This package is part of the pdfrx project.

Overview

This package provides:

Pre-built PDFium native libraries for all supported platforms
Utilities for loading PDFium at runtime
Re-exports of pdfium_dart FFI bindings

Platform Support

Platform	Support	Notes
Android	✅	ARM64, ARMv7, x86, x86_64
iOS	✅	ARM64, Simulator
macOS	✅	ARM64, x86_64
Windows	✅	x64, ARM64
Linux	✅	x64, ARM64, ARM, x86
Web	❌	FFI is not available for Web

Usage

This package is primarily intended to be used as a dependency by higher-level packages like pdfrx. Direct usage is possible but not recommended unless you need low-level PDFium access.

import 'package:pdfium_flutter/pdfium_flutter.dart';

// Get PDFium bindings
final pdfium = pdfiumBindings;

// Or load with custom path
final customPdfium = loadPdfium(modulePath: '/custom/path/to/pdfium.so');

Native Libraries

Android/Windows/Linux

PDFium binaries are downloaded during build from bblanchon/pdfium-binaries.

iOS/macOS

PDFium XCFramework is downloaded using CocoaPods/SwiftPM install from espresso3389/pdfium-xcframework.