pdfcpu VS gopdf

Slightly tangential: if you are hacking on PDFs, manually or otherwise, this is an incredibly useful tool: https://pdfcpu.io/ (not the author, just a user)

A really nice, stand-alone command line tool is pdfcpu.

https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu

Check it out => https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu/releases/tag/v0.6.0

I can report that the closest I've came before is with PDFMiner (https://pypi.org/project/pdfminer/) for Python. The benefit of this one is that it retains styling information, so that italics and the like can be retained, at least with some post-processing (I think one might need to convert certain CSS-classes to actual or tags).

The other option I have started looking into is the PDFCPU library for Go. It is a bit more low-level than PDFMiner, but one gets out very well structured info, that seem it might be possible to post-process quite well, for one's particular use case and PDF layouts: https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu

I also now tried the Marker tool in the OT, and it seems to do a reasonable job. It did intermingle some columns though, at least in some tricky cases such as when there were a round shaped image in between the two columns. One note is that Marker doesn't seem to retain styling like italics though.

Of course, the best way would be to solve it via the API without CLI. But this doesn't seem to work. https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu/issues/122

HTML to PDF is orders of magnitude slower than more direct PDF manipulation libraries in my experience, although I haven't used this particular library ( https://github.com/signintech/gopdf ) that this project uses so I can't say for sure.

Form me the bestis https://github.com/signintech/gopdf, but you have to build programmatically every things

Now, a good example of PDF processing in Go can be found in the gopdf library. Their source is clear and uses an actual FOSS license. Example: https://github.com/signintech/gopdf

Try this as a alternative: https://github.com/signintech/gopdf

https://github.com/signintech/gopdf is not declarative. Our use-case is to generate a receipt which contains a lot of dynamic data depending on the customer. Other ways to achieve this could be to use html templates and generate html and use tools like wkhtmltopdf for conversion from html to pdf. But, are these tools good enough to handle the pdf styling?