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Third-party licences

Plooi stands on the work of open-source makers. Here is what we use, under which licence, and the full text of every licence.

pdf-lib (@cantoo)

Makes and edits the PDFs: merge, split, rotate, number, protect.

MIT · © Andrew Dillon, Cantoo

Source code · Licence text 1

fontkit (@cantoo)

Embeds the font in the PDFs Plooi makes.

MIT · © Devon Govett

Source code · Licence text 1

PDF.js

Reads PDFs: previews, pages as images, text from a PDF.

Apache-2.0 · © Mozilla Foundation

Source code · Licence text 1 · Licence text 2

OpenJPEG, PDFium JBIG2, qcms (in PDF.js)

Reads scanned images in PDFs (JPEG 2000, JBIG2) and colour profiles.

BSD-2-Clause, BSD-3-Clause, MIT · © The OpenJPEG authors, The PDFium Authors, Mozilla

Source code · Licence text 1 · Licence text 2 · Licence text 3 · Licence text 4 · Licence text 5 · Licence text 6

Tesseract.js

Recognises text on scans and photos, in your browser.

Apache-2.0 · © Project Naptha, Jerome Wu and contributors

Source code · Licence text 1 · Licence text 2

tessdata best (nld, fra, deu, eng)

The language data for text recognition.

Apache-2.0 · © Google, the Tesseract contributors

Source code · Licence text 1

mammoth

Reads Word files for Word to PDF.

BSD-2-Clause · © Michael Williamson

Source code · Licence text 1

Lato

Embeds the font in the PDFs Plooi makes.

SIL OFL 1.1 · © Łukasz Dziedzic

Source code · Licence text 1

Updated on 21 October 2026.

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