Open Source PHP PDF Software

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.

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.

TCPDF (DEPRECATED → use https://github.com/tecnickcom/tc-lib-pdf)

Develop and automate PDF processing tasks like Compress PDF, merging PDF, Split PDF, converting Office to PDF, PDF to JPG, Images to PDF, adding Page Numbers, Rotate PDF, Unlocking PDF, stamping a Watermark, and Repair PDF. Each one with several settings to get your desired results. Strong infrastructure to offer the best-dedicated processing power. You might know us from ilovepdf.com where we process millions of PDFs daily. We offer a simple and concise API Reference and Guide as well as API Libraries with their own docs too. Our infrastructure uses the best PDF technology for processing PDF files. Merge and split documents with a variety of custom options. Remove, extract or organize PDF pages as you need. Reduce the size of your PDF while maintaining its original quality and formatting. Easily convert Images, MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel files into non-editable PDF documents. Convert PDF documents to JPG images or to PDF/A format.

Laravel Invoices is a Laravel package for generating invoice PDF files from customizable data. It gives developers a simple interface for creating invoices that can be stored, downloaded, or streamed through configured filesystems. The package supports different templates and locales, making it useful for applications that serve customers in multiple regions. It is designed for business systems, SaaS products, admin panels, and client billing workflows that need invoice output without building the full PDF logic from scratch. Developers can define invoice buyers, sellers, items, totals, notes, and other invoice details in code. Its main value is making professional PDF invoice generation easier to add to Laravel applications.

This package provides a simple way to create PDFs in Laravel apps. Under the hood it uses Chromium to generate PDFs from Blade views. You can use modern CSS features like grid and flexbox to create beautiful PDFs.

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.

Laravel Snappy is a Laravel wrapper around the Snappy PDF/Image library, which itself is powered by wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage, allowing you to generate PDFs and images directly from HTML. It lets you take a Blade view, raw HTML string, or file and turn it into a downloadable, savable, or in-browser PDF/image response with just a few lines of code. The package integrates cleanly with the Laravel service container and offers a simple facade/API so you can quickly configure page size, orientation, margins, and other options. Because it relies on wkhtmltopdf, it supports complex HTML and CSS (including many types of fonts, layouts, and images) much better than many pure-PHP solutions. It’s commonly used for invoices, reports, tickets, labels, and any other server-side generated documents where consistent layout matters. The package is widely used in the Laravel ecosystem and has community documentation, tutorials, and integrations with other tools and CMSs based 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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