WeasyPrint
PyMuPDF


WeasyPrint | PyMuPDF | |
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46 | 7 | |
7,480 | 6,488 | |
2.1% | 6.3% | |
9.6 | 9.7 | |
3 days ago | 4 days ago | |
Python | Python | |
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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WeasyPrint
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Converting Plotly charts into images in parallel
To create our PDF reports, we use a combination of Weasyprint, Jinja, and Plotly charts. To render a report as a PDF, we first have to render all graphs as images.
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Using Pandoc and Typst to Produce PDFs
https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint
> From a technical point of view, WeasyPrint is a visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF. It aims to support web standards for printing. WeasyPrint is free software made available under a BSD license.
Hmm, I wonder if you could use servo for a similar purpose.
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CSS Written in Pure Go
Also see a full web rendering engine (modern HTML+CSS the whole layout engine) made in pure Python, that can export to PDFs: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint
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Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs
Is there a reason you didn't consider something like Weasyprint?
https://weasyprint.org
I've gone through a number of systems to convert CV's, business cards, and other docs and it hasn't let me down yet.
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CSS for Printing to Paper
You don't _have_ to use a browser. I had very good results with Weasyprint [0]. And there's also PrinceXML [1] if you're willing to pay.
[0]: https://weasyprint.org/
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Show HN: A new open-source library to design PDF using React
Thanks for your answer! I imagined you would be using PrinceXML behind the scenes since that is probably the gold standard in HTML+CSS rendering.
The only open source alternative I know of is WeasyPrint at https://weasyprint.org/. I'm not sure how well it fares against PrinceXML, though.
And thanks for the pointer to Taffy - I didn't know it before!
- 1.5M PDFs in 25 Minutes
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Htmldocs: Typeset and Generate PDFs with HTML/CSS
Flexbox support has been [included][1] since 2018, although my use case was the prototypical one - a single row w/ 3 columns - so YMMV with how it handles more complex layouts.
[1]: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/pull/579
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How to Simply Generate a PDF From HTML in Symfony With WeasyPrint
Performance is not the strength of WeasyPrint, meaning that heavy HTML files will increase generation time. You should always compress images before attaching them, as they are not compressed by default. Generating a 50-page-long PDF may take up to a minute in extreme cases, although multi-page documents generated on my project take fewer than 2 seconds to generate.
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Show HN: Invoice Dragon – An Open Source App to Create PDF Invoices for Free
For Python there is Weasyprint: you prepare the invoice as an HTML document, and Weasyprint turns it into a PDF
https://weasyprint.org/
PyMuPDF
- Ask HN: What are you using to parse PDFs for RAG?
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PDF Hell and Practical RAG Applications
PyMuPDF
- FLaNK Stack for 04 December 2023
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Converting markdown to pdf in Python
This method is based on the use of the libraries markdown-it-py (conversion from markdown to html) and [PyMuPDF] https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF) (conversion from html to pdf). A small Python class links them together.
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Show HN: I am building a new Python library to read/write PDF files
I think you might mean PyMuPDF (https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF), a Python library built on top of the MuPDF C library (https://mupdf.com/).
PyMuPDF and MuPDF are both available under dual open source AGPL and commercial licenses. They have been around for many years and are under continual development.
[Disclaimer, i work for Artifex, who wrote MuPDF and recently acquired PyMuPDF.]
- M1 Mac: myuPDF install (wheel?)
- legacy install error: PyMuPDF?
What are some alternatives?
PyPDF2 - A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
ReportLab
WKHTMLToPDF - Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit)
pdfplumber - Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.
PDFMiner - Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.
borb - borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python.
pdftabextract - A set of tools for extracting tables from PDF files helping to do data mining on (OCR-processed) scanned documents.
pymorphy2 - Morphological analyzer / inflection engine for Russian and Ukrainian languages.
Camelot - A Python library to extract tabular data from PDFs

