EVO PDF Client for Azure
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EVO HTML to PDF Client Library for Azure can be easily integrated in any Azure application for .NET to create, read, edit and save PDF documents.

The library includes the HTML to PDF, Word to PDF, Excel to PDF, PDF to Text, PDF to Image, PDF to HTML and PDF Images Extractor components from EVO PDF Toolkit in a single library under an unique namespace that you can access in your .NET applications.
You can see the https://www.evopdf.com/azure-html-to-pdf-converter.aspx product page for a complete list of library features.

Client Libraries
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EVO PDF Client for Azure has separate builds for .NET Standard 2.0 and for .NET Framework 4.0. Both of them are compatible with Azure applications and can be used in the more restrictive Azure App Service and Azure Functions environments.

* The NetCore folder contains the EVO PDF Client library built for .NET Standard 2.0, ASP.NET Core demo applications for all library components and the product documentation with including API reference
* The Net4 folder contains the EVO PDF Client library built for .NET Framework 4.0, ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC demo applications for all library components and the product documentation

The Readme.txt file from each folder contains important information about the library usage on a specific platform , library features, compatibility, licensing and support.

EVO PDF Server
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Before starting to use the EVO PDF Client for .NET in your applications you first have to install the EVO PDF Server.
The server can be installed as Azure Cloud Service Worker Role, Azure Cloud Service Web Role, Azure Service Fabric Application, IIS ASP.NET Web Application or Windows Service.

EVO PDF Server can be downloaded from http://www.evopdf.com/download.aspx#client_server page of the website.
EVO PDF Server package contains the server files and detailed installation instructions for each platform.
For development and testing you can start by installing EVO PDF Server as a Windows Service on the local development machine with default options.

After the EVO PDF Server was installed, you are ready to use the EVO PDF Client libraries for .NET Core and .NET Framework in your Azure applications.
