42 tools
Headless, command-line tool (and C library) that renders HTML into PDF using the Qt WebKit rendering engine, without requiring a display server. Can capture live URLs or local HTML.
Docker-packaged drop-in alternative to wkhtmltopdf: a CLI (`athenapdf`, built on Electron) for direct HTML-to-PDF conversion with an 'aggressive mode' that strips page clutter, plus a `weaver` HTTP microservice (Go) for running conversions as a scalable, Kubernetes/AWS-ECS-deployable service.
Universal document converter between Markdown, HTML, LaTeX/ConTeXt, DOCX/RTF/ODT, EPUB, man/ms roff, DocBook, JATS, TEI, Jupyter notebooks, PowerPoint/reveal.js/Beamer slides, and dozens more formats. Uses external PDF-producing engines (context, latexmk, lualatex, pdflatex, xelatex, wkhtmltopdf, weasyprint, prince, pagedjs-cli, tectonic, pdfroff) to convert into PDF, and preserves metadata, footnotes, tables, math, syntax highlighting, and citations/bibliographies (via CSL) across formats.
JavaPDF creation/manipulation library: creates PDFs from scratch and modifies existing ones (add/remove pages, edit text); HTML-to-PDF conversion (openpdf-html module); text, fonts, graphics, images, and tables; page layout control; encryption and digital signing (via BouncyCastle); text extraction; PDF-to-image rendering (openpdf-renderer); and PDF 2.0 (ISO 32000-2) features including Brotli stream compression.
JavaLegacy iText 5: core PDF creation/manipulation library (receiving security fixes only), with add-on modules for PDF 2.0 features (itext-xtra), PDF/A generation/validation (itext-pdfa), and XML/HTML-to-PDF conversion (xmlworker). Targets Java 5 compatibility, which blocks upgrading some vulnerable dependencies.
Renders well-formed XML/XHTML using CSS 2.1 layout/formatting to Swing panels, images, or PDF (via an OpenPDF-based renderer, or by delegating to a headless Chrome shell for modern HTML5/CSS3 support); also offers SWT output for Eclipse-based apps.
JavaPure-Java HTML/CSS-to-PDF/image renderer, a modernization of Flying Saucer.
Renders a practical subset of XML/XHTML/HTML5 with CSS 2.1+ (incl. CSS3 transforms, gradients, multiple backgrounds) to PDF or images, with SVG and MathML plugin support, accessible/tagged PDF output (Section 508, PDF/UA, WCAG 2.0), PDF/A compliance, font fallback and embedding, RTL/bidi text, footnotes, and file embedding via link download attributes.
Puppeteer-based (headless Chrome) command-line tool that exports HTML slide presentations to high-quality PDF, with native support for 13 frameworks (reveal.js, impress.js, remark, Bespoke.js, deck.js, etc.) plus a generic mode for others; can also capture slides as PNG/JPG images, export slide ranges, and set PDF metadata.
JavaScriptCLI tool and Node.js API (built on Electron/Chromium) that converts URLs, HTML files, or Markdown files to PDF or PNG, with custom CSS injection, page size/orientation/margin control, print-background support, custom request headers, and batch/concurrent job handling.
JavaScriptNode.js library that renders HTML (local strings or remote URLs) to PDF using headless Chrome/Chromium, or exports as PNG/JPEG/WebP screenshots; supports templated headers/footers, custom HTTP headers, configurable viewport/device-scale, and multiple render-completion triggers (callbacks, DOM events, timers).
JavaScriptNode.js web service that converts HTML (passed as a data URI) into PDF, supporting manual page breaks via CSS `page-break-before: always`.
Client-side (browser-only) library built on html2canvas and jsPDF that converts a webpage, DOM element, or canvas into a PDF entirely in the browser, with configurable margins, page breaks, image quality/type, and a promise-based worker API. Renders content as images, so output text is not selectable/searchable and files can be large.
JavaScriptClient-side JavaScript library for generating PDFs in the browser or Node: configurable paper size/orientation/units, text with 14 standard fonts or custom embedded TTF/Unicode fonts, images, transformation matrices, patterns, and FormObjects; plugin ecosystem adds HTML-to-PDF (via html2canvas) and table generation. Ships as ES module, UMD, or with TypeScript typings. (Originally MrRio/jsPDF, now hosted under github.com/parallax/jsPDF, which the old URL redirects to.)
JavaScriptCLI tool (`md2resume`) that converts a Markdown resume into a responsive HTML page and a PDF version (via wkhtmltopdf), with a watch mode for live-reload editing and Docker support.
PhantomJS-based library that converts HTML to PDF, PNG, or JPEG via a file/stream/buffer API, with paper size, orientation, margin, zoom, and header/footer options.
Command line interface for Paged.js, a free and open source library that paginates content in the browser to produce print-ready PDFs from HTML/CSS.
JavaScriptMicroservice (Puppeteer/headless Chrome) that converts URLs or posted HTML into PDFs or PNG/JPEG screenshots, with configurable viewport, PDF page size/orientation/margins/scale, header/footer templates, page-range selection, cookies/headers, SPA network-idle waiting, and optional API-key auth; deployable via Heroku or Docker.
Perl port of the Ruby PDFKit library: converts HTML strings, URLs, or files to PDF using wkhtmltopdf's WebKit rendering engine, with external stylesheet injection and PDF options settable via constructor args, global config, or HTML meta tags.
Pure-PHP PDF/barcode generation library covering PDF/barcode generation, text/graphics, digital signatures, form fields, password/public-key encryption, and HTML/CSS rendering.
UTF-8/RTL text with TrueType/OpenType/Type1/CID-0 font support and subsetting; HTML/CSS and SVG rendering with multi-column layouts, headers/footers, bookmarks, and TOC; JPEG/PNG/SVG images (plus GIF/BMP/TIFF/etc. via GD); RC4/AES-256 encryption; PAdES/PKCS#7 digital signatures with RFC 3161 TSA timestamps and LTV; PDF/A, PDF/X, and PDF/UA compliance modes; page import/reordering; AcroForm fields; and companion-package barcode support.
PHPCLI/Docker tool that converts a Markdown resume into a responsive HTML5/CSS3 page and a PDF (via wkhtmltopdf), with selectable themes, a live-reload watch mode, word-frequency stats analysis, and single-file output with embedded styles.
Generates PDFs from UTF-8 HTML (including CJK content): headers/footers, page numbering, TOC, color handling, embedded fonts, zlib-compressed output, XML-driven charset conversion, basic SVG, and optional barcode generation (via bcmath). Notably lacks state-of-the-art CSS support compared to headless-Chrome-based alternatives.
PHPPHP package that drives headless Chrome (via Puppeteer) to convert a URL, HTML string, or local HTML file into a PDF or image; can also extract the rendered HTML body after JavaScript execution and list all network requests the page triggered.
PHPPHP wrapper around wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltoimage that generates PDFs or image snapshots/thumbnails from URLs or HTML, merges multiple URLs into a single PDF, supports XSL-based tables of contents, and passes through wkhtmltox options (page size, margins, cookies, JS); includes Symfony, Laravel, and Zend Framework integrations.
PHPLaravel wrapper around mPDF: renders Blade views to PDF with data binding, custom headers/footers with page numbering, custom TTF fonts, document permission protection (copy/print/modify/extract/assemble), and per-file config overrides, with output via string, save, download, or browser stream.
Pure-PHP (no external PDF library) HTML-to-PDF converter: CSS 2.1 (with some CSS3) including @import/@media/@page rules, most presentational HTML 4.0 attributes, external/inline stylesheets, complex table rendering (spans, border models), GIF/PNG/BMP/JPEG images, basic SVG, inline PHP, and embedded fonts (bundled DejaVu TrueType for Unicode). Does not support CSS Flexbox/Grid or multi-page table cells.
PHPLaravel wrapper around Dompdf: converts HTML strings, files, or Blade views to PDF with paper size/orientation, DPI, fonts, CSS page breaks, and UTF-8 support; generates PDF/A-3b compliant output with embedded files and XMP metadata (for Zugferd/Factur-X e-invoicing); toggles JS/remote-content/PHP execution; outputs to disk, browser stream, download, or string.
PHPConverts specially-cleaned HTML (not arbitrary web pages) into PDF using TCPDF as the underlying engine, for generating documents like invoices and documentation; requires the gd and mbstring PHP extensions. Not designed to render existing websites or WYSIWYG-generated HTML directly.
PHPLaravel wrapper around the Snappy library: generates PDFs or images from HTML strings, files, or Laravel views, with output to file/browser/download, wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltoimage option passthrough (paper size, orientation, margins), and a fake mode for testing without real rendering.
PHPGenerates PDFs two ways: DOCX templating (variable substitution like `${FOO}`, block cloning, table row duplication, then converted to PDF) or HTML-to-PDF via PhantomJS.
Python port of the PHP FPDF library for generating PDFs: Unicode (UTF-8) TrueType font subset embedding, I2of5/Code39 barcodes (QR planned), PNG/GIF/JPG images (incl. transparency/alpha), and templates with a visual designer plus basic HTML-to-PDF.
PythonPython wrapper around wkhtmltopdf: converts HTML from URLs, files, or strings (single or multiple at once) to PDF, with configurable wkhtmltopdf options, TOC generation, cover pages, external CSS, and HTML meta-tag-based settings.
Python library that renders HTML and CSS to PDF using a custom Python-built CSS layout/pagination engine (not WebKit/Gecko), targeting print-oriented CSS/HTML standards for generating reports, invoices, tickets, and similar structured documents.
PythonPure-Python HTML-to-PDF converter (built on ReportLab, html5lib, and pypdf) supporting HTML5 and CSS 2.1 (with some CSS3), with cairo or legacy RenderPM graphics backends for bitmap/vector output.
PythonUnicode TrueType font subset embedding, cell/multi-cell/plaintext writing with automatic page breaks, optional Markdown-like text styling, image embedding with transparency, SVG import, arbitrary path drawing, table generation, internal/external links, barcodes/charts/emoji, document encryption and digital signing, annotations (highlights, file attachments), HTML-to-PDF conversion, basic math rendering, and TOC/outline generation.
RubyRails plugin that uses wkhtmltopdf to render standard HTML views (or raw HTML/URLs/files) as PDF, avoiding a specialized PDF DSL: `format.pdf` controller responses, saving/emailing PDFs, CSS styling and JS execution, custom headers/footers, Rack middleware for `.pdf`-suffixed URLs, and an HTML debug-preview mode.
RubyRuby gem that generates PDFs from HTML+CSS via wkhtmltopdf (WebKit rendering): converts HTML strings, URLs, or files; attaches stylesheets; passes cookies; configures default/global wkhtmltopdf options; and provides Rack/Rails middleware for `.pdf`-suffixed routes with forced-download support.
Ruby gem that uses Puppeteer/headless Chromium (or Firefox) to convert URLs, inline HTML, local files, or Rails view templates into PDF, PNG, or JPEG: configurable page layout/margins/viewport, cookies/headers, CSS/JS injection, cover pages, HTTP basic auth, remote-browser connections, wait conditions (network idle, element visibility), and Rack middleware for URL-extension-triggered conversion.
RubyRails-oriented gem (headless Chrome via Ferrum, no Node.js dependency) that renders HTML/URLs to PDF (`render ferrum_pdf: {}`) with paper size/margin/orientation/scale options and dynamic headers/footers, or captures PNG/JPEG screenshots (`render ferrum_screenshot: {}`) of the full page, viewport, or a CSS-selected element.
RubyRails wrapper around the PrinceXML PDF generator: renders PDF templates via a `:pdf` render option, registers PDF as a respond_to MIME type, provides a `make_and_send_pdf` helper, and supports custom layouts/stylesheets/locals, asset path rewriting, inline/attachment disposition, JS and PDF-form flags, and configurable timeouts.
ScalaScala wrapper around wkhtmltopdf that generates PDFs from HTML/CSS/JS: accepts input as files, streams, URLs, Scala XML elements, or raw strings; writes to files or output streams; supports wkhtmltopdf's extended parameters (orientation, page size, margins); referenced images/stylesheets; async conversion via Scala `Future`; and a `WrappedPdf` mode for headless environments (e.g. via xvfb-run).