Top 21 HTML-to-PDF Open-Source Projects

• Dompdf

  17 10,278 8.2 PHP

  HTML to PDF converter for PHP

  

Project mention: Intro to DOMPDF - lightest and simplest PHP library to generate PDF documents | dev.to | 2024-04-05

Generating PDF documents out of your app's HTML output is a very common requirement and there are several open source libraries to accomplish this. I came across this need for my project recently and I evaluated many popular ones such as TCPDF, mpdf, FPDF, etc. But the one that truly stood up to my evaluation in terms of efficiency (minimal footprint) and ease of implementation was DOMPDF.

• Snappy

  3 4,342 4.8 PHP

  PHP library allowing thumbnail, snapshot or PDF generation from a url or a html page. Wrapper for wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltoimage (by KnpLabs)

  

Project mention: How to Simply Generate a PDF From HTML in Symfony With WeasyPrint | dev.to | 2023-12-12

When I first looked for solutions to generate a PDF document in a Symfony application, I was amazed to find that a SymfonyCast was made about this. It features the PHP library Snappy, which is essentially a wrapper around wkhtmltopdf.

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• Pdfkit

  4 2,920 2.5 Ruby

  A Ruby gem to transform HTML + CSS into PDFs using the command-line utility wkhtmltopdf (by pdfkit)

  

Project mention: Working with PDFs in Ruby | dev.to | 2023-10-24

Like the WickedPDF gem, the PDFkit gem uses wkhtmltopdf on the backend to convert plain HTML and CSS files into PDF documents.

• xhtml2pdf

  2 2,179 7.5 Python

  A library for converting HTML into PDFs using ReportLab

  

• KnpSnappyBundle

  2 1,220 5.5 PHP

  Easily create PDF and images in Symfony by converting html using webkit

  

• go-wkhtmltopdf

  2 1,006 4.0 Go

  Golang commandline wrapper for wkhtmltopdf

• go-wkhtmltopdf

  1 210 5.0 Go

  Go bindings for wkhtmltopdf and high-level HTML to PDF conversion interface (by adrg)

Project mention: Library to convert HTML to pdf in Golang | /r/golang | 2023-05-22

I haven't needed to create PDFs in Go but a quick search brought this library up: https://github.com/adrg/go-wkhtmltopdf

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• scryber.core

  6 172 8.1 C#

  Scryber.Core is a dotnet html to pdf engine written entirely in C# for creating beautiful flexible, flowing documents from html templates including css styles, data binding, svg drawing and encryption

Project mention: (Free) Open-source PDF Generation/Export | /r/dotnet | 2023-06-06

u/WolfenBass1, just spotted your post, and feel free to check out Scryber.Core. It sounds like it supports what need, and will run client-side in Blazor (as well as server side). Using templates, based on html with data binding with expressions you should be able to do what you need. It is open source, and free. Also on Nuget, and any feedback is gratefully received.

• puppeteer-report

  1 137 0.0 TypeScript

  Convert HTML to PDF by Puppeteer with support of adding a custom header, footer, and page number

• GotenbergSharpApiClient

  2 101 5.1 Rich Text Format

  .NET C# Client for the Gotenberg API

  

• Docotic.Pdf

  1 65 8.6 C#

  Docotic.Pdf library can create, edit, draw and print PDF files in .NET Core, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WPF, Xamarin, Blazor, Unity, and HoloLense applications. The library is a 100% managed assembly without unsafe blocks. The assembly has no external dependencies.

  

• html-pdf-invoice-template

  2 63 4.3 CSS

  An HTML invoice template for use in a browser and with HTML to PDF generation.

  

• jikji

  1 44 5.7 TypeScript

  Effortless report generator and reporting tools with React and NodeJS

• HTMLWithImagesToPDF

  1 39 2.9 Swift

  Showcasing a bug in iOS when generating a PDF from an HTML page using UIMarkupTextPrintFormatter.

• python-anvil

  1 16 1.9 Python

  Python library and CLI for the Anvil API

  

• unihtml

  1 14 2.7 Go

  UniHTML client

  

• fay

  1 13 1.8 Go

  Stateless, Fast and Reliable PDF rendering service. (by StarpTech)

• lazypress

  1 10 10.0 Go

  Convert HTML pages to PDFs looking just like they would render in the browser

Project mention: Library to convert HTML to pdf in Golang | /r/golang | 2023-05-22

Not a library per se but you can check the code it uses: https://github.com/alexferrari88/lazypress

• FastPDF Service API (Python)

  0 0 7.1 Python

  Python SDK for Fast PDF Service

  

• FastPDF Service API (Java)

  1 0 5.9 Java

  Java SDK for Fast PDF Service

  

Project mention: FastPDF Service API (Java) VS itext7 - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/fastpdf-java | 2023-12-07

• FastPDF Service API (C# .NET)

  1 0 7.6 C#

  C# SDK for Fast PDF Service

  

Project mention: FastPDF Service API (C# .NET) VS itext7-dotnet - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/fastpdf-csharp | 2023-12-07

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