Open Source Linux PDF Generation Libraries
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View 23 business solutionsBrowse free open source PDF Generation Libraries and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source PDF Generation Libraries by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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PDF Arranger
Small python-gtk application, to merge or split PDFs
PDF Arranger is a small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. It is a front end for pikepdf. PDF Arranger is a fork of Konstantinos Poulios’s PDF Shuffler (see Savannah or Sourceforge). It’s a humble attempt to make the project a bit more active. -
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OpenPDF
open source Java library for creating and editing PDF files
OpenPDF is a Java library for creating and editing PDF files with a LGPL and MPL open source license. OpenPDF is the LGPL/MPL open source successor of iText, and is based on a fork, of a fork, of iText 4 svn tag. -
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QuestPDF
A library that can help you with generating PDF documents
Quickly design and generate PDF documents with an open-source, modern, and battle-tested C# library. Forget about limitations, feel confident, enjoy your task and efficiently deliver professional products. QuestPDF is a progressive library that can help you with generating PDF documents in your .NET application by offering a friendly, discoverable and predictable C# fluent API. Do you believe that creating a complete invoice document can take less than 200 lines of code? We have prepared for you a step-by-step instruction that shows every detail of this implementation and describes the best patterns and practices. This library is created specifically for designing and arranging document layouts, with full paging support. Alternative solutions, such as HTML-based converters, are not designed for this purpose and therefore are often unpredictable and do not produce desired results. -
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WeasyPrint
The awesome document factory
WeasyPrint is a smart solution helping people to create PDF documents. You can generate gorgeous statistical reports, invoices, tickets, and anything you want as long as you have some webdesign skills! Design your documents just as you design your websites! WeasyPrint follows the widely used HTML and CSS specifications from the W3C. You can use your usual web tools, languages and frameworks, but for print. Creating high-quality digital documents requires features that you love to use as readers, tables of contents, links, annotations, optimized images, attachments, WeasyPrint provides many features out of the box, and even gives you the possibility to add your own ways to customize your PDF files. Digital fonts are finely tuned pieces of artwork. To give to your documents the subtle touch they deserve, carefully choose the options you want, kerning, ligatures, old-style numbers, tabular figures, ordinals, etc. -
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purePDF
A complete actionscript PDF library
purePDF is a complete PDF library for ActionScript designed as a port of the Java iText 1 library. It allows developers to both create and read PDF documents directly from running SWF files, enabling seamless integration of PDF functionality into Flash-based applications. The library supports a wide range of PDF features, including advanced text rendering, graphics, gradients, transparency, annotations, and interactive forms. It also provides robust support for images, fonts, metadata, barcodes, and even RTL text such as Arabic. With a modular structure and compatibility with common ActionScript libraries, purePDF delivers flexibility for building rich, document-driven applications. Its comprehensive set of tools makes it suitable for both simple and advanced PDF tasks, from generating tables to handling page transitions and multimedia features. The library is open source, with examples demonstrating its capabilities and a reference PDF showcasing all classes in use. -
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FastReport Open Source
Free Open Source Reporting tool for .NET
Free Open Source Reporting tool for .NET Core/.NET Framework that helps your application generate document-like reports. -
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PdfPig
Read and extract text and other content from PDFs in C#
This project allows users to read and extract text and other content from PDF files. In addition the library can be used to create simple PDF documents containing text and geometrical shapes. -
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pikepdf
A Python library for reading and writing PDF, powered by QPDF
pikepdf is a Python library allowing the creation, manipulation, and repair of PDFs. It provides a Pythonic wrapper around the C++ PDF content transformation library, QPDF. Python + QPDF = “py” + “qpdf” = “pyqpdf”, which looks like a dyslexia test and is no fun to type. But say “pyqpdf” out loud, and it sounds like “pikepdf”. pikepdf is a library intended for developers who want to create, manipulate, parse, repair, and abuse the PDF format. It supports reading and write PDFs, including creating from scratch. Thanks to QPDF, it supports linearizing PDFs and access to encrypted PDFs. -
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Malicious PDF Generator
Generate a bunch of malicious pdf files with phone-home functionality
Generate ten different malicious PDF files with phone-home functionality. Can be used with Burp Collaborator or Interact.sh. Used for penetration testing and/or red-teaming etc. I created this tool because I needed a third-party tool to generate a bunch of PDF files with various links. -
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carbone
Fast and simple report generator, from JSON to pdf, xslx, docx, odt
Turn your JSON into PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, ODS and many more. Fast, Simple and Powerful report generator in any format PDF, DOCX, XLSX, ODT, PPTX, ODS, XML, CSV using templates and your JSON data as input. -
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pdfme
A TypeScript based PDF generator library, made with React
TypeScript base PDF generator and React-based UI. Open source, developed by the community, and completely free to use under the MIT license. No complex operations are required. Just bring your favorite template and generate all the PDFs you need. Works on node and the browser. Anyone can easily create and modify templates using Designer (UI template editor). Templates have a JSON document representation, which makes theme easy to understand and easy to work with. -
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jpeg2pdf
Create PDF from JPEG scans and photos
Cross-platform command-line tool for creation of PDF documents from scans/photos of pages in JPEG (.jpg) format and the lightest weight ANSI C library to put multiple JPEG files into one PDF file. You can add handwritten comments to PDF scans (over original images) with xournal: http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ It supports graphics tablets and saves comments to PDFs as vector data. -
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Markdown to PDF
Hackable CLI tool for converting Markdown files to PDF using Node.js
A simple and hackable CLI tool for converting markdown to pdf. It uses Marked to convert markdown to HTML and Puppeteer (headless Chromium) to further convert the HTML to PDF. It also uses highlight.js for code highlighting. The whole source code of this tool is only ~250 lines of JS ~500 lines of Typescript and ~100 lines of CSS, so it is easy to clone and customize. -
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iText Community for .NET
iText for .NET is the .NET version of the iText library
iText for .NET is the .NET version of the iText library, formerly known as iTextSharp, which it replaces. iText represents the next level of SDKs for developers who want to take advantage of the benefits PDF can bring. Equipped with a better document engine, high and low-level programming capabilities and the ability to create, edit, and enhance PDFs. -
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iText®, a JAVA PDF library
PDF Library for Developers
iText is an open-source PDF library available for Java and .NET (C#). iText allows you to effortlessly generate and manipulate standards-compliant PDF documents with a powerful and feature-rich SDK. With iText, you can create archivable and accessible PDFs, split and merge documents, fill and flatten forms, digitally sign documents, and more. iText add-ons enable additional functionality, such as PDF creation from HTML templates, secure redaction, OCR, and much more. The latest versions of iText build on the success of previous versions and feature an improved document engine, high and low-level programming capabilities, and a more efficient modular structure. iText represents the next level for developers looking to leverage PDF in document workflows. The main project page for iText is now on GitHub, and all the latest releases, code samples, open source add-ons and tools, etc. can be found at https://github.com/itext/. -
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Asciidoctor PDF
Asciidoctor PDF: A native PDF converter for AsciiDoc
A fast text processor & publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc to HTML5, DocBook & more. Asciidoctor is a fast, open source, Ruby-based text processor for parsing AsciiDoc® into a document model and converting it to output formats such as HTML 5, DocBook 5, manual pages, PDF, EPUB 3, and other formats. Asciidoctor also has an ecosystem of extensions, converters, build plugins, and tools to help you author and publish content written in AsciiDoc. -
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Prawn
Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby
Prawn is a pure Ruby PDF generation library that provides a lot of great functionality while trying to remain simple and reasonably performant. Extensive text rendering support, including flowing text and limited inline formatting options. Comprehensive internationalization features, including full support for UTF-8 based fonts, right-to-left text rendering, fallback font support, and extension points for customizable text wrapping. Support for PDF outlines for document navigation. Low level PDF features, allowing users to create custom extensions by dropping down all the way to the PDF object tree layer. (Mostly useful to those with knowledge of the PDF specification). If you are looking for a highly flexible PDF document generation system, Prawn might be the tool for you. It is not a reporting tool or a publishing toolchain, though it could be fairly easily used to build those things. -
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Snappy PHP
PHP library allowing thumbnail, snapshot or PDF generation from an URL
Snappy is a PHP library allowing thumbnail, snapshot or PDF generation from a url or a html page. It uses the excellent WebKit-based wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage available on OSX, Linux, Windows. You will have to download wkhtmltopdf 0.12.x in order to use Snappy. -
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fpdf2
Simple PDF generation for Python
fpdf2 is a library for simple & fast PDF document generation in Python. It is a fork and the successor of PyFPDF. Compared with other PDF libraries, fpdf2 is fast, versatile, easy to learn and to extend (example). It is also entirely written in Python and has very few dependencies: Pillow, defusedxml, & fontTools. It is a fork and the successor of PyFPDF. -
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unipdf
Golang PDF library for creating and processing PDF files (pure go)
UniDoc UniPDF is a PDF library for Go (golang) with capabilities for creating and reading, processing PDF files. The library is written and supported by FoxyUtils.com, where the library is used to power many of its services. Every release of our libraries is automatically tested against known vulnerabilities and do not pass unless everything is remediated. All changes are carefully reviewed by our team. -
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PDFReporter
Generating documents and reports, offline enabled and reliable.
The library is a fork of the popular open source Jasper Reports and supports the common features provided by Jasper Reports, but offline and for mobile apps. The PDFReporter library supports iOS, Java and Android library. For your document and report design you use the PDFReporter Studio where you can visualize your data. If you want to use the library commercially please visit our official webpage. -
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Reporting engine library written in C. Create one XML file and generate PDF, HTML, TXT, and CSV reports based on queries. Has support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC. Bindings for PHP, Java, Python.
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toPDF
Online service for PDF conversion (to PDF)
A simple online service for PDF conversion. This project is a simple library and also a web application. It offers a REST service and a simple upload service for synchronous conversion. This library/application doesn't contain conversion libraries because it's a wrapper for existing tools. toPDF currently supports the open source tool PDF Creator (http://www.pdfforge.org) and the commercial solution, easy PDF, from BCL (http://www.pdfonline.com/easypdf/sdk/).
