Ask HN: Looking for recommendations for document generation APIs

2 points by giza182 4y ago ↗ HN

Can anyone recommend a good api for generating pdf documents? I'm thinking of something that you can provide with a template (maybe html) and a model and it spits out a pdf document. I know it's not too difficult to write one's own, I'm just curious.

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shayac2 4y ago ↗

Check out carbone.io It’s not super powerful but does the trick for basic stuff. They have both self hosted and a cloud/paid version. pspdfkit.com might also have something for rendering PDFs as a service.

fiftyacorn 4y ago ↗

Just to say when evaluating pdf generation you probably need to consider accessibility at some stage and a lot of options are weak on this

giza182 4y ago ↗

Accessibility? How do you mean?

distartin 4y ago ↗

Hi, there are some open sources likejsreports, carbone or reportbro but if you are looking generation to image you might try https://duply.co