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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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KnpSnappyBundle
Easily create PDF and images in Symfony by converting html using webki
Easily create PDF and images in Symfony by converting HTML using webkit. Snappy is a PHP wrapper for the wkhtmltopdf conversion utility. It allows you to generate either pdf or image files from your html documents, using the webkit engine. The KnpSnappyBundle provides a simple integration for your Symfony project. If you need to change the binaries, change the instance options or even disable one or both services, you can do it through the configuration. Render a pdf document with a relative url inside like css files. Render a pdf document as a response from a controller. Render an image as response from a controller. Generate a pdf document from a twig view. -
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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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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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HummusJS
Node.js module for high performance creation and modification of PDFs
PDFWriter latest release (4.5.12) includes support for fonts that contain Emojis. Notable examples for Emoji fonts are Windows Segoe UI emoji and Google Noto font. This means that writing text that include emojis will result in lovely colorful emojis, rather than black and white representations. PDFHummus is a fast and free PDF Writing, Parsing and Modification library. -
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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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Vanilla.PDF
Cross-platform SDK for creating and modifying PDF documents
Vanilla.PDF is a modern, high-performance, open-source C++17 SDK designed for creating, editing, signing, and analyzing PDF documents across multiple platforms. It requires no external runtime dependencies, making it lightweight and ideal for embedding into desktop applications, servers, or automation pipelines. The SDK offers full cross-platform support including Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android, with builds available for major compilers and architectures. Vanilla.PDF supports advanced PDF features such as adding CMS (PKCS#7) digital signatures, modifying content streams and metadata, and working with encryption and permissions based on standard PDF security models. It includes tools for parsing PDF internals like cross-reference tables and objects, providing fine-grained document analysis capabilities. The project is unit-tested with continuous integration pipelines, supporting sanitizers for enhanced code quality and stability. -
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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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xhtml2pdf
A library for converting HTML into PDFs using ReportLab
xhtml2pdf enables users to generate PDF documents from HTML content easily and with automated flow control such as pagination and keeping text together. The Python module can be used in any Python environment, including Django. The Command line tool is a stand-alone program that can be executed from the command line. -
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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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dompdf - the PHP 5 HTML to PDF converter. dompdf is a (mostly) CSS compliant HTML rendering engine written in PHP. It supports external stylesheets, inline style tags, and the style attributes of individual HTML elements. Requires PHP 5.
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This is intended to be library for easy creation of pdf documents dynamically from templates a database. It uses pdflib for pdf creation, phplib for database access. Currently templates can be imported only from Adobe Pagemaker.
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PDFLib-free PDF creation using PHP. It has interface compatible with php pdf creator (pdf-php library). Implements most of Adobe recommended features like PageTrees, Outlines, and so on.
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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/). -
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Crossplatform menstruation calender with dynamic pdf-report-generation via server-script. The calender is intended for the CLDC profile and MIDP1.0 - like mobile phones, PDA and is written in J2ME. The server allows dynamic upload and pdf-generation and
