Artifex

Founded in 1993, and based in California, US, Artifex operates as a document processing and management software provider, providing its clients with tools related to Microsoft office, PDF for mobile, cloud computing, and SaaS applications. In February 2022, ePapyrus Inc. , a portfolio company of UbiQuoss Investment, T. S.

Investment, PathfinderH, Kona Venture Partners, Kolon Investment, Hana Ventures, Central Investment Partners, Bokwang Venture Capital, and A Ventures, fully acquired Artifex. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. As of 2022, the company is led by its CEO Kim Jeong-hee. Artifex offers a wide range of SaaS-based products and services including Ghostscript, a PDL (PostScript, PDF, PCL, XPS) interpreter/converter solution, MuPDF, an ultra-small, ultra-fast PDF rendering solution, PyMuPDF, a comprehensive Python Bindings for MuPDF, App Kit, a PDF functionality for Android and iOS applications, SmartOffice, to create, edit, and share MS Office and PDF documents, ScanSkew, a skew detection and correction module, Jbig2dec, decoder implementation of the JBIG2 image compression format, MuJS, a lightweight Javascript interpreter module to allow scripting capabilities in software solutions, ASPEN, the Artifex SmartPrint Engine (ASPEN) combines three innovative print technologies for one powerful embedded print engine.