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Last updated: July 14, 2026

UnboundPDF stands on the work of the open-source community. The tools run in your browser thanks to several excellent open-source libraries, and we are grateful to the people who make and maintain them. This page lists the libraries we bundle and the licence each is distributed under.

The full notice text for every library is collected in one file: THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt. Each library remains the property of its authors and is used under the terms of its own licence.

Libraries we bundle

pdf-lib

MIT License · Create & modify PDFs

Powers most of our PDF reading and writing. Copyright © Andrew Dillon and pdf-lib contributors. Bundles @pdf-lib/fontkit (MIT) for font embedding. — github.com/Hopding/pdf-lib

PDF.js

Apache License 2.0 · v3.11.174 · Render PDF pages

Made by Mozilla. Used to render and preview PDF pages in your browser. Copyright © 2023 Mozilla Foundation. — github.com/mozilla/pdf.js

Tesseract.js v5.1.1

Apache License 2.0 · OCR / text recognition

Recognizes text in scanned documents and images, running in your browser. Copyright © Tesseract.js contributors. We host the OCR engine ourselves — it bundles tesseract.js-core 5.1.1 (Apache-2.0) and the English language data (Apache-2.0, from the Tesseract OCR project / tessdata, © Google Inc. and contributors), all served from unboundpdf.com rather than a third-party CDN. — github.com/naptha/tesseract.js

Mammoth

BSD 2-Clause License · Read .docx files

Converts Word (.docx) documents to HTML during Word-to-PDF conversion. Copyright © Michael Williamson. Bundles JSZip (dual-licensed MIT or GPL-3.0). — github.com/mwilliamson/mammoth.js

html2canvas

MIT License · v1.4.1 · Render HTML to canvas

Renders HTML content to a canvas for HTML-to-PDF and related tools. Copyright © 2022 Niklas von Hertzen and contributors. — github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas

Some of these libraries bundle their own smaller open-source dependencies — for example JSZip inside Mammoth, and fontkit, pako, and fflate inside pdf-lib. Those components are used under their respective permissive licences (MIT, and in JSZip's case a dual MIT / GPL-3.0 licence). Their full notices are in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt.

The short version of each licence

For convenience, here is the standard notice for the three licence types above. These apply to the libraries listed, not to UnboundPDF's own content.

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

Apache License, Version 2.0

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

Full text: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
   this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
   this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
   and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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