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Dompdf
HTML to PDF converter for PHP
dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter. At its heart, dompdf is (mostly) a CSS 2.1 compliant HTML layout and rendering engine written in PHP. It is a style-driven renderer, it will download and read external stylesheets, inline style tags, and the style attributes of individual HTML elements. It also supports most presentational HTML attributes. PDF rendering is currently provided either by PDFLib or by a bundled version the R&OS CPDF class written by Wayne Munro. (Some important changes have been made to the R&OS class, however). In order to use PDFLib with dompdf, the PDFLib PECL extension is required. Using PDFLib improves performance and reduces the memory requirements of dompdf somewhat, while the R&OS CPDF class, though slightly slower, eliminates any dependencies on external PDF libraries. -
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mPDF
PHP library generating PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML
mPDF is a PHP library that generates PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML. The original author, Ian Back, wrote mPDF to output PDF files ‘on-the-fly’ from his website, handling different languages. It is slower than the original scripts e.g. HTML2FPDF and produces larger files when using Unicode fonts, but support for CSS styles etc. and has been much enhanced. Supports almost all languages including RTL (Arabic and Hebrew), and CJK (Chinese-Japanese-Korean). Nested block-level elements (e.g. P, DIV) including margins, borders, padding, line height, background colors, etc. Right-to-left languages are supported, with automatic detection of RTL characters within a document. Transposes tables, lists, text justification, and table cell alignment, as well as a full-text reversal for RTL characters. Automatically detects non-RTL characters and displays these in the original order. -
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PDF4QT
Open source PDF editor
PDF4QT is open source PDF editor based on Qt framework. It contains a C++ library, applications for viewing/editing PDF documents, and a command line tool. PDF4QT is an open-source PDF editor for Windows/Linux. It is a modern solution for viewing/editing/rendering PDF documents, for users and developers alike. For developers, there is a C++ library and a command line tool for use in scripts. For users, there are four applications offering many features. The project is hosted on Github and uses the license LGPLv3. The applications are primarily used by target users to view, edit, manipulate or compare PDF documents. Users can preview these applications in the screenshots section of this webpage. Basic browsing and lots of other functionalities, such as encryption, reading a document, verification of digital signatures, editing of annotations, searching for text using regular expressions, drawing pages into an image, and much more. Several plug-ins are available. -
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OpenPDF
open source Java library for creating and editing PDF files
OpenPDF is a Java library for creating and editing PDF files with a LGPL and MPL open source license. OpenPDF is the LGPL/MPL open source successor of iText, and is based on a fork, of a fork, of iText 4 svn tag. -
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ConcatPDF
PDF Concatenation Tool
ConcatPDF is the tool to concatenate PDF files. It can concatenate, extract, encrypt, decrypt, configure PDF files, convert image files to PDF. GUI version and CUI version are both available. iText.NET is iText porting on .NET Framework by J#. This library allows you to generate PDF, (X)HTML, XML, RTF files on Microsoft.NET Framework including ASP.NET. -
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QuestPDF
A library that can help you with generating PDF documents
Quickly design and generate PDF documents with an open-source, modern, and battle-tested C# library. Forget about limitations, feel confident, enjoy your task and efficiently deliver professional products. QuestPDF is a progressive library that can help you with generating PDF documents in your .NET application by offering a friendly, discoverable and predictable C# fluent API. Do you believe that creating a complete invoice document can take less than 200 lines of code? We have prepared for you a step-by-step instruction that shows every detail of this implementation and describes the best patterns and practices. This library is created specifically for designing and arranging document layouts, with full paging support. Alternative solutions, such as HTML-based converters, are not designed for this purpose and therefore are often unpredictable and do not produce desired results. -
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iText®, a JAVA PDF library
PDF Library for Developers
iText is an open-source PDF library available for Java and .NET (C#). iText allows you to effortlessly generate and manipulate standards-compliant PDF documents with a powerful and feature-rich SDK. With iText, you can create archivable and accessible PDFs, split and merge documents, fill and flatten forms, digitally sign documents, and more. iText add-ons enable additional functionality, such as PDF creation from HTML templates, secure redaction, OCR, and much more. The latest versions of iText build on the success of previous versions and feature an improved document engine, high and low-level programming capabilities, and a more efficient modular structure. iText represents the next level for developers looking to leverage PDF in document workflows. The main project page for iText is now on GitHub, and all the latest releases, code samples, open source add-ons and tools, etc. can be found at https://github.com/itext/. -
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Gerber2PDF
Gerber to PDF converter
Gerber2PDF is a command-line tool to convert Gerber files to PDF for proofing and hobbyist printing purposes. It converts multiple Gerber files at once, placing the resulting layers each on it's own page within the PDF. Each layer has a PDF bookmark for easy reference. Layers can optionally be combined onto a single page and rendered with custom colours and transparency. There is a Drill to Gerber converter available from the downloads page. -
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jpeg2pdf
Create PDF from JPEG scans and photos
Cross-platform command-line tool for creation of PDF documents from scans/photos of pages in JPEG (.jpg) format and the lightest weight ANSI C library to put multiple JPEG files into one PDF file. You can add handwritten comments to PDF scans (over original images) with xournal: http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ It supports graphics tablets and saves comments to PDFs as vector data. -
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Vanilla.PDF
Cross-platform SDK for creating and modifying PDF documents
Vanilla.PDF is a modern, high-performance, open-source C++17 SDK designed for creating, editing, signing, and analyzing PDF documents across multiple platforms. It requires no external runtime dependencies, making it lightweight and ideal for embedding into desktop applications, servers, or automation pipelines. The SDK offers full cross-platform support including Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android, with builds available for major compilers and architectures. Vanilla.PDF supports advanced PDF features such as adding CMS (PKCS#7) digital signatures, modifying content streams and metadata, and working with encryption and permissions based on standard PDF security models. It includes tools for parsing PDF internals like cross-reference tables and objects, providing fine-grained document analysis capabilities. The project is unit-tested with continuous integration pipelines, supporting sanitizers for enhanced code quality and stability. -
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Laravel Report Generators
Rapidly Generate Simple Pdf, CSV, & Excel Report Package on Laravel
Rapidly generate simple PDF reports on Laravel or CSV/Excel reports. This package provides simple PDF, csv & excel report generators to speed up your workflow. It also allows you to stream(), download(), or store() the report seamlessly. -
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Gotenberg
A Docker-powered stateless API for PDF files
Gotenberg provides a developer-friendly API to interact with powerful tools like Chromium and LibreOffice for converting numerous document formats (HTML, Markdown, Word, Excel, etc.) into PDF files, and more! Thanks to Docker, you don't have to install each tool in your environments; drop the Docker image in your stack, and you're good to go! The webhook feature allows you to upload the output file to the destination of your choice. There are many options to fit your requirements, from the custom HTTP headers sent to your webhook to the HTTP method used to call it. Gotenberg is a platform composed of modules; each module has properties you may customize to your flavor. Build your own Docker image by adding new tools and create modules that provide new routes to the API. Gotenberg provides a developer-friendly API to interact with powerful tools like Chromium and LibreOffice for converting numerous document formats (HTML, Markdown, Word, Excel, etc.) into PDF files, and more! -
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Snappy PHP
PHP library allowing thumbnail, snapshot or PDF generation from an URL
Snappy is a PHP library allowing thumbnail, snapshot or PDF generation from a url or a html page. It uses the excellent WebKit-based wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage available on OSX, Linux, Windows. You will have to download wkhtmltopdf 0.12.x in order to use Snappy. -
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PDFtk Bookmarks Editor
GUI for updating PDF bookmarks using PDF Toolkit (PDFtk) on Windows
Free and open source GUI application for updating bookmarks in a PDF document using the PDF Toolkit command line tool, PDFtk Server. User selects the PDF via drag and drop and then edits the bookmark entries in a text file using a simple, 1-line data format. Program handles everything else in response to a few user button clicks. OS: Windows. Author: David King. License: GPLv3. -
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Prawn
Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby
Prawn is a pure Ruby PDF generation library that provides a lot of great functionality while trying to remain simple and reasonably performant. Extensive text rendering support, including flowing text and limited inline formatting options. Comprehensive internationalization features, including full support for UTF-8 based fonts, right-to-left text rendering, fallback font support, and extension points for customizable text wrapping. Support for PDF outlines for document navigation. Low level PDF features, allowing users to create custom extensions by dropping down all the way to the PDF object tree layer. (Mostly useful to those with knowledge of the PDF specification). If you are looking for a highly flexible PDF document generation system, Prawn might be the tool for you. It is not a reporting tool or a publishing toolchain, though it could be fairly easily used to build those things. -
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PDF API HTML5 Web Apps
Mini SDK JavaScript API library PDF web apps
A condensed library designed to web modern applications, to quickly export your content html to pdf thanks the famous library in javascript: jsPDF. And a special thanks to the project canvg and html2canvas. Project documentation: http://ulmdevice.altervista.org/pdfapihtml5/#documentation ========== Also available service for Angular 7+: http://ulmdevice.altervista.org/pdfjsapi/ Mobile Applications: http://bit.ly/1MrlgKk Opera add-on: http://bit.ly/1kkMhTa -
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toPDF
Online service for PDF conversion (to PDF)
A simple online service for PDF conversion. This project is a simple library and also a web application. It offers a REST service and a simple upload service for synchronous conversion. This library/application doesn't contain conversion libraries because it's a wrapper for existing tools. toPDF currently supports the open source tool PDF Creator (http://www.pdfforge.org) and the commercial solution, easy PDF, from BCL (http://www.pdfonline.com/easypdf/sdk/).
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