Company
PATEON Network Technology
Taipei, Taiwan.
NextPDF is built and maintained by PATEON Network Technology, an independent security-and-network engineering company. The open-source core is the proven engine behind its commercial editions.
Provenance
The open core of a commercial product
NextPDF Core began as PATEON's internal engine for regulated B2B document, signing, and validation work. It was hardened over years of commercial production — against audit-relevant documents and real signing obligations — before it was opened under Apache 2.0.
The open core is community-available; NextPDF Pro and Enterprise remain PATEON's proprietary product, and their revenue funds the open core's continued maintenance. The same security discipline that shaped a signing pipeline for paying clients still governs the engine today.
- Maker
- PATEON Network Technology Inc. (trading as pnt.)
- Based in
- Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
- Team
- ~25 — R&D, security research, and a NOC
- Security
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022-certified ISMS (independently audited)