Open Source Linux PDF Generation Libraries
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View 23 business solutionsBrowse free open source PDF Generation Libraries and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source PDF Generation Libraries by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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PDF Arranger
Small python-gtk application, to merge or split PDFs
PDF Arranger is a small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. It is a front end for pikepdf. PDF Arranger is a fork of Konstantinos Poulios’s PDF Shuffler (see Savannah or Sourceforge). It’s a humble attempt to make the project a bit more active. -
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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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WeasyPrint
The awesome document factory
WeasyPrint is a smart solution helping people to create PDF documents. You can generate gorgeous statistical reports, invoices, tickets, and anything you want as long as you have some webdesign skills! Design your documents just as you design your websites! WeasyPrint follows the widely used HTML and CSS specifications from the W3C. You can use your usual web tools, languages and frameworks, but for print. Creating high-quality digital documents requires features that you love to use as readers, tables of contents, links, annotations, optimized images, attachments, WeasyPrint provides many features out of the box, and even gives you the possibility to add your own ways to customize your PDF files. Digital fonts are finely tuned pieces of artwork. To give to your documents the subtle touch they deserve, carefully choose the options you want, kerning, ligatures, old-style numbers, tabular figures, ordinals, etc. -
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fpdf2
Simple PDF generation for Python
fpdf2 is a library for simple & fast PDF document generation in Python. It is a fork and the successor of PyFPDF. Compared with other PDF libraries, fpdf2 is fast, versatile, easy to learn and to extend (example). It is also entirely written in Python and has very few dependencies: Pillow, defusedxml, & fontTools. It is a fork and the successor of PyFPDF. -
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iText Community for .NET
iText for .NET is the .NET version of the iText library
iText for .NET is the .NET version of the iText library, formerly known as iTextSharp, which it replaces. iText represents the next level of SDKs for developers who want to take advantage of the benefits PDF can bring. Equipped with a better document engine, high and low-level programming capabilities and the ability to create, edit, and enhance PDFs. -
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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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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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PdfPig
Read and extract text and other content from PDFs in C#
This project allows users to read and extract text and other content from PDF files. In addition the library can be used to create simple PDF documents containing text and geometrical shapes. -
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borb
borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files
borb is a library for creating and manipulating PDF files in python. borb is a pure python library to read, write, and manipulate PDF documents. It represents a PDF document as a JSON-like data structure of nested lists, dictionaries and primitives (numbers, string, booleans, etc) This is currently a one-man project, so the focus will always be to support those use-cases that are more common in favor of those that are rare. -
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pdfme
A TypeScript based PDF generator library, made with React
TypeScript base PDF generator and React-based UI. Open source, developed by the community, and completely free to use under the MIT license. No complex operations are required. Just bring your favorite template and generate all the PDFs you need. Works on node and the browser. Anyone can easily create and modify templates using Designer (UI template editor). Templates have a JSON document representation, which makes theme easy to understand and easy to work with. -
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pikepdf
A Python library for reading and writing PDF, powered by QPDF
pikepdf is a Python library allowing the creation, manipulation, and repair of PDFs. It provides a Pythonic wrapper around the C++ PDF content transformation library, QPDF. Python + QPDF = “py” + “qpdf” = “pyqpdf”, which looks like a dyslexia test and is no fun to type. But say “pyqpdf” out loud, and it sounds like “pikepdf”. pikepdf is a library intended for developers who want to create, manipulate, parse, repair, and abuse the PDF format. It supports reading and write PDFs, including creating from scratch. Thanks to QPDF, it supports linearizing PDFs and access to encrypted PDFs. -
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FastReport Open Source
Free Open Source Reporting tool for .NET
Free Open Source Reporting tool for .NET Core/.NET Framework that helps your application generate document-like reports. -
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Asciidoctor PDF
Asciidoctor PDF: A native PDF converter for AsciiDoc
A fast text processor & publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc to HTML5, DocBook & more. Asciidoctor is a fast, open source, Ruby-based text processor for parsing AsciiDoc® into a document model and converting it to output formats such as HTML 5, DocBook 5, manual pages, PDF, EPUB 3, and other formats. Asciidoctor also has an ecosystem of extensions, converters, build plugins, and tools to help you author and publish content written in AsciiDoc. -
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HexaPDF
Versatile PDF creation and manipulation for Ruby
HexaPDF is a pure Ruby library with an accompanying application for working with PDF files. It was designed with ease of use and performance in mind. It uses lazy loading and lazy computing when possible and tries to produce small PDF files by default. -
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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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PDFReporter
Generating documents and reports, offline enabled and reliable.
The library is a fork of the popular open source Jasper Reports and supports the common features provided by Jasper Reports, but offline and for mobile apps. The PDFReporter library supports iOS, Java and Android library. For your document and report design you use the PDFReporter Studio where you can visualize your data. If you want to use the library commercially please visit our official webpage. -
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Markdown to PDF
Hackable CLI tool for converting Markdown files to PDF using Node.js
A simple and hackable CLI tool for converting markdown to pdf. It uses Marked to convert markdown to HTML and Puppeteer (headless Chromium) to further convert the HTML to PDF. It also uses highlight.js for code highlighting. The whole source code of this tool is only ~250 lines of JS ~500 lines of Typescript and ~100 lines of CSS, so it is easy to clone and customize. -
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Open HTML to PDF
An HTML to PDF library for the JVM
Open HTML to PDF is a pure-Java library for rendering a reasonable subset of well-formed XML/XHTML (and even some HTML5) using CSS 2.1 (and later standards) for layout and formatting, outputting to PDF or images. Use this library to generated nice looking PDF documents. But be aware that you can not throw modern HTML5+ at this engine and expect a great result. You must special craft the HTML document for this library and use it's extended CSS feature like #31 or #32 to get good results. Avoid floats near page breaks and use table layouts. -
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markdown-pdf
Markdown to PDF converter
Node module that converts Markdown files to PDFs. The PDF looks great because it is styled by HTML5 Boilerplate. What? - Yes! Your Markdown is first converted to HTML, then pushed into the HTML5 Boilerplate index.html. Phantomjs renders the page and saves it to a PDF. You can even customise the style of the PDF by passing an optional path to your CSS and you can pre-process your markdown file before it is converted to a PDF by passing in a pre-processing function, for templating. -
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dompdf - the PHP 5 HTML to PDF converter. dompdf is a (mostly) CSS compliant HTML rendering engine written in PHP. It supports external stylesheets, inline style tags, and the style attributes of individual HTML elements. Requires PHP 5.
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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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PDFLib-free PDF creation using PHP. It has interface compatible with php pdf creator (pdf-php library). Implements most of Adobe recommended features like PageTrees, Outlines, and so on.
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The Umber project provides simple, flexible, "earthy" Java tool libraries for developers. The tools supplement common tasks like XML handling, data processing, and PDF generation, but without the complex and arcane APIs of most modern implementations.
