Open Source Windows PDF Generation Libraries
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View 40 business solutionsBrowse free open source PDF Generation Libraries and projects for Windows 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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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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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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PDFsharp
PDFsharp is a .NET library for creating and modifying PDF documents.
PDFsharp moved to https://github.com/empira/PDFsharp PDFsharp is a .NET library for creating and modifying Adobe PDF documents programmatically from any .NET language like C# or VB.NET. PDFsharp defines classes for the objects found in PDF files, so you never have to deal with IDs or references directly. The downloads include MigraDoc Foundation, a .NET library for creating documents on the fly (supports PDF and RTF). PDFsharp is the .NET library that easily creates and processes PDF documents on the fly from any .NET language. The same drawing routines can be used to create PDF documents, draw on the screen, or send output to any printer. MigraDoc Foundation is the .NET library that easily creates documents based on an object model with paragraphs, tables, styles, etc. and renders them into PDF, XPS, or RTF. -
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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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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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PDFSticher
Code repository for PDFStitcher, a utility to stitch together PDFs
The open source PDF stitching software for sewists, by sewists. PDFSticher is a utility for stitching together many PDF pages from one document into a single page. This is also called "N-Up" or page imposition. This program was created in order to convert sewing patterns into a convenient format for projecting, though it could be used to stitch together any PDF. Since version 0.4, it is also possible to select layers for inclusion/exclusion in the final output. Additionally, line properties can be modified for each layer if the input PDF is compatible. -
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purePDF
A complete actionscript PDF library
purePDF is a complete PDF library for ActionScript designed as a port of the Java iText 1 library. It allows developers to both create and read PDF documents directly from running SWF files, enabling seamless integration of PDF functionality into Flash-based applications. The library supports a wide range of PDF features, including advanced text rendering, graphics, gradients, transparency, annotations, and interactive forms. It also provides robust support for images, fonts, metadata, barcodes, and even RTL text such as Arabic. With a modular structure and compatibility with common ActionScript libraries, purePDF delivers flexibility for building rich, document-driven applications. Its comprehensive set of tools makes it suitable for both simple and advanced PDF tasks, from generating tables to handling page transitions and multimedia features. The library is open source, with examples demonstrating its capabilities and a reference PDF showcasing all classes in use. -
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pyfpdf
Simple PDF generation for Python (FPDF PHP port)
PyFPDF is a library for PDF document generation under Python, ported from PHP (see FPDF: "Free"-PDF, a well-known PDFlib-extension replacement with many examples, scripts, and derivatives). Compared with other PDF libraries, PyFPDF is simple, small, and versatile, with advanced capabilities, and is easy to learn, extend and maintain. -
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Malicious PDF Generator
Generate a bunch of malicious pdf files with phone-home functionality
Generate ten different malicious PDF files with phone-home functionality. Can be used with Burp Collaborator or Interact.sh. Used for penetration testing and/or red-teaming etc. I created this tool because I needed a third-party tool to generate a bunch of PDF files with various links. -
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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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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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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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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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carbone
Fast and simple report generator, from JSON to pdf, xslx, docx, odt
Turn your JSON into PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, ODS and many more. Fast, Simple and Powerful report generator in any format PDF, DOCX, XLSX, ODT, PPTX, ODS, XML, CSV using templates and your JSON data as input. -
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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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xhtml2pdf
A library for converting HTML into PDFs using ReportLab
xhtml2pdf enables users to generate PDF documents from HTML content easily and with automated flow control such as pagination and keeping text together. The Python module can be used in any Python environment, including Django. The Command line tool is a stand-alone program that can be executed from the command line.
