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| 0.0 | 4.4 | |
| 3 months ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| TypeScript | TypeScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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pdf-lib
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Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs
I'm facing that same pain point of programmatic PDF filling. I noodled around in the PDF format and learned it's a bit difficult to deal with fonts and formatting. But I think this client-side library works well enough, as a start: https://pdf-lib.js.org/#:~:text=a%20single%20document.-,Fill...
I've also heard of one paid API that I forgot but seemed to work well, and this related service https://www.jotform.com/, and I also considered porting some server-side libraries to WASM. One day I'll collect all the libraries and findings in a blog post.
Are you looking to programmatically fill any PDF form by detecting the fields? Or are you filling one known PDF template?
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Show HN: PrivatePDF – minimal PDF editor that runs in the browser
Thanks! For PDF form filling, I use the APIs that pdf-lib [0] exposes. That includes text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns and options lists. Give it a try and let me know if you find a type of form field that's missing.
[0] https://github.com/Hopding/pdf-lib
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Thinking of throwing in the towel and hiring help - small website business
I do not know if some plugin exists, but maybe you have to take a look at https://pdf-lib.js.org/
- Does no one use PDF files anymore?? In need of a PDF generator package...
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Is node the right choice for HTML to PDF conversion?
PDFmake or pdf-lib would be the way to go in my opinion.
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I made a free PDF editor that works in your browser
Sure! You can build your own PDF editor with a combination of PDF.js and PDF-lib
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I built a wrapper to easily embed my PDF editor (SimplePDF) in any React app!
I stand on the shoulders of giants, namely PDF-lib, PDF-js and React-beautiful-DND – everything else is pretty much custom code.
- PDF editing - client side with canvas or on server?
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How can I use PDF-Lib in Cloudflare Workers?
How one can use a library such as PDF-Lib (npm, website) that:
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PDF Library
I built my side-project https://pdfvise.com/ using https://pdf-lib.js.org/ for pdf manipulations.
labelmake
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Generate a PDF on the server side
I need my JS to fetch data from my DB (since all the values for width, size and pos are located on my db) and then generate it using a JS library (I will use this one).
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Generate a PDF in JS Summary and comparison of libraries
if you like it, give me a start⭐ https://github.com/hand-dot/labelmake
What are some alternatives?
PDFKit - A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser
docx - Easily generate and modify .docx files with JS/TS with a nice declarative API. Works for Node and on the Browser.
puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome
pdfme - A TypeScript based PDF generator library, made with React.
PyPDF4 - A utility to read and write PDFs with Python
text-to-pdf - Create and retrieve PDFs using HTTP GET and POST requests
qpdf - QPDF: A content-preserving PDF document transformer
create-zihan-lib - Create libraries without pain
PDF.js - PDF Reader in JavaScript
markdown-preview-enhanced - One of the 'BEST' markdown preview extensions for Atom editor!
svg2pdf.js - A javascript-only SVG to PDF conversion utility that runs in the browser. Brought to you by yWorks - the diagramming experts