Apryse vs. Nutrient
When it comes to enterprise-grade security and reliability, there’s only one option. See how Nutrient stacks up as the best Apryse alternative.
What makes Nutrient the best Apryse alternative?
Enterprise-grade security and privacy
PDF engine maturity
World-class support
Pay only for what you need
Trusted by industry leaders
Scott Gilmore
Flight Deck Solutions Offering Manager
“Using Pilotbrief and Nutrient allows this all to be done electronically, saving not only paper but also precious time.”
IBM Cognitive Applications
Feel safe with enterprise-grade security and privacy
Protect your customers and organization with a PDF SDK that’s built on PDFium, the same secure PDF engine used in Chromium and maintained by Google. With SOC 2-compliant processes and a flawless 10-year track record of no security vulnerabilities or exposures, Nutrient is the PDF SDK that enterprises, government agencies, and startups trust.
Nutrient | Apryse | |
|---|---|---|
PDF engine | PDFium (by Google) | Proprietary closed source |
Known vulnerabilities (CVEs) | 0 | |
SOC 2 Type 2 security audit | ||
Third-party penetration testing |
Jonathan Metzman
Software engineer on the Open Source Security Team
“Because PDFium has large stakeholders such as Chromium, downstream users benefit from the significant effort Chromium makes in securing PDFium.”
Apryse latest high-severity CVE vulnerabilities
What is the cost of a vulnerability?
PDFTron customer
“PDFTron doesn’t provide any native mechanism to ensure that rendered documents cannot be opened by someone else… We had to implement our own additional layer of security…”
PDFTron customer
“[Security] updates are not available for previously supported versions of Autodesk® Inventor and AutoCAD® — versions 2021–2019”
Build secure software on a battle-tested PDF engine
The Nutrient core SDK and user interface sit on top of an optimized fork of PDFium, the same PDF engine used in Chromium, Android, and countless other applications by 2 billion users to open trillions of PDFs every year.
PDFium PDF engine | Apryse | |
|---|---|---|
Contributors | Google, Microsoft, Dropbox, Nutrient | Apryse |
Adoption | Billions of active users | A few thousand customers |
Scale | Trillions of PDFs | Billions of PDFs |
Code commits (Nov 2021–Nov 2022) | Undisclosed | |
Third-party commercial dependencies | 0 | 2 |
Open source dependencies | 10 | 50+ |
Scott Gilmore
Flight Deck Solutions Offering Manager
“Nutrient allows us to use flight plans from the airline providers with ease. If not, we would have to either change the format or come up with another solution.”
IBM
Apryse vs. Nutrient at a glance
An aging legacy codebase, support issues, and paying for unused features are recurring themes when you compare the Apryse SDK vs. the Nutrient SDK.
Nutrient | Apryse | |
|---|---|---|
User tracking | No tracking whatsoever | SDK usage is tracked (data sent to a third party) |
Technical support timezone coverage | Global | Limited |
Age of codebase | Since 2011 | Since 1998 |
Cloud offering | ||
Modern JSON support | ||
File type support | 100+ | 59 |
Web, mobile, server, and desktop support | ||
Industry-leading document understanding | ||
In-house OCR expertise | ||
Age of codebase | Pay only for what you need | Document views and tiered packages |
Steve Cangiano
Director of Product Management
“We found the tool set to be very deep, and it allowed us to take total control of the data moving between our application and Nutrient. The quality of the product is extremely high, and we know it will handle just about anything we throw at it.”
CMiC
Feature maturity comparison
In the 12 months following a strategic €100 million investment by Insight Partners, Nutrient added more than 3,000 new capabilities. With Nutrient, you have everything to support your developers today and enable your vision for tomorrow.
Nutrient | Apryse | |
|---|---|---|
Enterprise-grade security | ||
Document scanning (TWAIN and WIA) | ||
OCR | Via third-party software | |
Key-value pair extraction | ||
Smart redaction | ||
Automated document recognition (ADR) | ||
Optical mark recognition (OMR) | ||
Machine readable zone (MRZ) recognition | ||
Barcode reading and writing | ||
Mixed raster compression (MRC hyper-compression) | ||
Magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) | ||
Viewing and annotation | ||
PDF generation | ||
Conversion | ||
Real-time collaboration | Limited support |
Jeanette Thomas
CTO
“We don’t think any other tools have the breadth and the ease of use that Nutrient has. We certainly have evaluated other companies over the years. And every time we do that, we’ve come back to Nutrient.”
Govenda