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The tech support is by far the best I have ever worked within 27 years of development. Questions are answered quickly and program fixes are created and are made available.
– Dennis
This is a comparative table for a typical PDF library versus ByteScout SDK products.
Open-Source library | ByteScout SDK | |
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Price | It depends Open-source != Free. Make sure you’ve read License carefully. |
Paid Covers product + support + updates. |
Who made it | Made by some strangers from the Internet Make sure to explore who made it. Is it a team or just some stranger? A professional? |
The team of experienced developers Made by developers who work on SDK professionally for years |
Tested? | It depends Sometimes it may have some tests included. You are expected to create and run your own tests. |
Automated and Manual Testing For Every Release Plus additional tests based on feedback and reports from thousands of customers |
Tech Support Included? | No Write a question on GitHub, a forum, or an online community. Someone may want to answer and help you. If you face a bug then try to fix it on your own (and share with others for free!). Original project authors are not obligated to answer and may ask to pay for support or become a paid sponsor of the project. |
Yes Send a request to ByteScout Team to get answers and guidance from experts. You are not alone! |
Base Features? | Yes? Test it to make sure these base features work as expected |
Yes Base features are the core of the product |
Advanced Features? | It depends Some advanced features may exist in the project, but make sure you test these functions. |
Yes Created based on needs from real customers and polished based on feedback from paid customers and companies like yours |
Updates? | It depends Some projects are updated, others are not. It depends. Very often it is just a single person working on a project in her free time. |
Paid Covers product + support + updates. |
Battle-tested? | It depends The best way is to find someone who tested this library in a very similar project and environment. |
Yes Battle-tested on millions of files in the production and refined over the years based on the feedback from many customers. |